Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the Musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being. If a person is able to get satisfaction out of something that does not bring satisfaction to the average man, and is not able to enjoy something that this average man enjoy, he is in a sense, abnormal. If this is nobility I prefer to be happy in my ignobility...
...result of the popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...
...Boston musical public was not willing to consider voluntarily the inadequacy of a snow shoveller's wage to satisfy a cultured musician, despite the fact that they were gradually losing many of their most accomplished artists, and in consequence their claim to having the best orchestra in the country, the facts needed to be brought to their attention in a more definite manner...
...presence tonight of Mr. Kreisler, the University is honored by a musician of world-wide distinction; and through him the University possesses an opportunity of expressing its appreciation of art, regardless of the nationality of the artist. If it is a crime to have been born in Austria-Hungary, Mr. Kreisler is undoubtedly guilty. But the vast majority of undergraduates do not believe it to be a crime. Hysteria may be regarded as inevitable, and even as pardonable, in time of war; in time of peace it usually succeeds only in making itself ridioulous...