Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous...
Died. Henry Kimball Hadley, 66, famed U. S. composer, conductor; in Manhattan. Dr. Hadley was the son of a musician, at the age of 17 had composed an operetta, Happy Jack, which is still performed in U. S. schools arid colleges. During his career as a composer he wrote four operas, four symphonies, innumerable songs, cantatas, tone poems. Able, though rarely inspired, Composer Hadley was a leading spirit in San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club, titled his most popular Overture In Bohemia...
...composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood...
...Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera is her mother, is escorted into a cabaret one night...
...interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...