Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these are stunning figures. Morale. Now, if you strolled casually into the artists' entrance of the opera house during the height of the season and observed the laughing, joking, careless manner of the groups of singers and musicians whom you would encounter, you might easily vow that it was impossible properly to put on so many productions with such an air of levity prevailing-an air so different from the orthodox solemn bustle of " efficiency." You would, if you looked deeper, observe beneath all the care less lounging...
...divided into two classes: those devoted to the constructive or creative, and those which deal with the appreciative or critical, Applied music, that is, singing and playing on instruments, is not offered by the University for academic credit, because this branch, though important in the equipment of a musician, concerns itself largely with physical co-ordination, and does not involve the element of logic which is required by courses in musical theory, as well as by courses in other departments of the University. In one sense every music course is a course in appreciation, because it is of little value...
Many inventors have experimented with a typewriter for transcribing music, but hitherto the results have been small. But now comes the report that a London musician, Signor Fortoni, has devised a typewriter which copies a sheet of music complete with all the signs. It appears that the new machine is a complicated affair, and that its cost of manufacture is a formidable affair. If the device should prove to be commercially practicable, it will be a great aid to musicians, since the labor of writing out large scores is a heavy burden upon composers. Of course, it may be that...
...That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...
...great school of medieval counterpoint to compositions of the discordant moderns. Their program for last week embraced such different names as Palestrina, Pergolesi, Archangelsky. The director is Father Finn, choirmaster of New York's great church of the Paulist order. He is a fine, genial fellow, a learned musician and, one guesses, a lively hand with a pair of boxing gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing...