Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged last spring as visiting lecturer in music, Nadia Boulanger, French musician, will give two new courses, one of which, a graduate seminar in music competition, will be open to students from the brother institution, it was learned yesterday...
Last week, while erstwhile Bolero fans occupied themselves with other fads & fancies, the music world mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three...
...Europe on the Europa, after a fortnight in the U. S. so modestly spent that none but intimates knew she was in the country, sailed Titian-haired Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, Hungarian beauty, talented musician, crack shot, friend of half of Europe's great. Along with Italy's Queen Elena, she bears the distinction of having been personally decorated by Adolf Hitler...
Nobody expects jazz musicians to play symphonies. But some high-brow concert audiences still think that symphonic musicians can play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly...
...rolling stone who has picked up considerable polish as he revolved through a number of phases of the publishing business, Paul Gallico was born to an Italian musician in a boarding house. He worked his way through Columbia University as a North River stevedore, Metropolitan Opera usher, gym teacher and German tutor. In his spare hours he played baseball, football, was acting captain of the 1921 Columbia crew after a two-year hitch in the Navy. Somehow he found plenty of time to turn out pulp magazine stories and short newspaper fiction...