Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told in "The Church of Santa Rosa," and there is a laudatory analysis of Sheldon's play "Salvation Nell...
...Benjamin Johnson Lang, musician and composer, church organist at fifteen, as teacher, organist and conductor, for many years the servant and guide of the best singing societies in Boston...
...Dyke's correct use of technical language is also to be warmly commended. Music is so much an art of emotion, so vague and ovanescent, that even the best writers at times indulge in flowery language and use technical and aesthetic terms in a way which alienates the professional musician and misleads the layman. "The Music Lover" is singularly free from this kind of writing and may he cordially recommended as a very charming and poetic interpretation of perhaps the greatest masterpiece for orchestra ever composed...
...universal appeal. New England has always been a Puritan district, into which the Germans are now introducing the aestheticism of their own scholarship. Professor Spalding spoke on the relations which have existed for several years between the University and the Orchestra. Harvard is endeavoring to produce a type of musician broadly educated as well as technically qualified, and to avoid giving the curriculum the narrowness and vanity that distinguish most great musicians. He was followed by Professor Francke, who read a letter from Professor Paul Clemen, regretting his inability to be present...
Professor Royce, Professor L. R. Lewis '88 of Tufts, and Mr. Arthur B. Whiting '90, all spoke on the necessity of a muical education. Too much stress has been laid upon the idea that in order to be musical one must be a musician, but all that is necessary to have a proper appreciation of good music as an art. These speakers commended the work undertaken by the Musical Club in attempting to interest all men in the love and study of music for its own sake. Professor Lewis told of the attempts which have been made to introduce music...