Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the New Orleans States: "In Budapest a musician was so enraged by the chatter of a woman in the audience that he ran amuck and bit a policeman. But he made a great mistake. He should have chewed the ear of the offending woman. Had he done so he would have established a precedent that might still the feminine bazoo during a musical performance...
When Henry Ford marketed his ten millionth flivver, a musician composed a symphonic poem to celebrate the event (TIME, April 25). Edward Phillips Oppenheim has now published his 100th novel,* and though not one of his creations has been a flivver, somebody should salute Mr. Oppenheim with at least a small trumpet...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...last analysis, it amounts to a problem in definition. What is an "artist"? The Labor Department holds that "a professional musician is properly regarded as a professional artist for the purpose of exemption." The Union would restrict the term "artist" to "one who is adept, has attained great knowledge and skill in the fine art known as music and who, as a vocation, practices that art for the advancement and welfare of mankind" (Paderewski, Kreisler, Ysaye, Toscanini...
...many a musician and many a dramatist, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany partakes of the nature of a ceremony in honor of a saint. The saint is Richard Wagner, who stated-and lived according to his statement-that the artist's function is a religious one, to lead the public mind "by ideal representation of the allegorical picture to the comprehension of the inner essence, the divine, unspeakable Truth." To that end, he composed his series of operas, drama-music spectacles called Der Ring des Niebe-lungen, knowing full well that they could never be adequately presented by conventional...