Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Burke's plea for the adoption of the rhythm of ragtime by the musician he writes: "A queer accusation against it is that of monotony," and proceeds to show in disproof that several hundred different combinations of eighth notes are possible in a measure of four beats. True, doubtless, but there is in practice, very little variety in the grouping of these combinations in the phrase--often a constant repetition of a two measure group--and practically none in the arrangement of the several phrases. The insistency of the syncopation only aggravates the obviousness of the phraseology and the resulting...
...major article of the number is fittingly an appreciation of Verdi, whose centenary occurs this month and whose contributions to the opera only the passing of the years begins to estimate properly. In a thoughtful and convincing article on "The Musician and the University," Mr. Echmann discuses the advantages to musicians of every type of a university training, and makes some timely suggestions to students interested in the critical and scientific side of music concerning possible fields for research, a phase of the art much cultivated in foreign universities but receiving little attention here. It is good to hear more...
...album-leaf characterization, d'Indy's frank acknowledgement of the debt of present-day composers to Wagner is an agreeable testimony to the artistic sincerity of the distinguished French musician. There are those of his countrymen who are suspiciously over-emphatic in their denial of the Wagnex influence...
...large universities to offer a course in music as a part of its curriculum, and from that one small course there has been a steady growth, made possible by the interest of a considerable number of students, until now the Department offers twelve different courses. These enable the musician to do a good deal of practical and theoretical study, but their great value to most men lies in cultivating in the individual, by a study of the compositions of the great masters, an intellectual appreciation of music...
...Rudolph Ganz, the eminent Swiss musician, will give a pianoforte recital in New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. Admission will be by ticket only; tickets are on safe at Amee's the price being 50 cents for reserved seats and 25 cents for admission...