Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes disclosed that there is in the Music Building, a fine Bull Fiddle, equipped with a bow, a book of instructions and a half-pound of resin, awaiting any musician who wishes to tackle the problem. He also said that the beat please of any student compoaer will be played at a concert in Paine Hall later in the year...
...court last week Accuser Toscanini testified that Nicotra visited the U. S. in 1932, posed as the late Musician Richard Drigo, was widely feted. Two years in jail was Nicotra's sentence. Said Dealer Toscanini: "I wanted to restore the faith of foreign collectors in Italian dealers...
This column has carefully avoided, for the past few weeks, any mention of Fabian Sebvitsky and his "Grand Orchestra." Time for silence is now over, as patience reaches the limit. It has been rumored that Mr. Sevitsky is a real musician, but thus far this rumor is utterly contradicted by the evidence. Please, Mr. Sevitsky, if your boys can't do it, please refrain from your weekly annihilations of great music...
Orpheus, son of Apollo, played his lyre so well that birds and beasts were stilled and oak trees moved from their places to listen. Even Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, was lulled to sleep when the musician tried to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Jealous Thracian maidens killed Orpheus who was buried in Libethra where the nightingales are supposed to sing more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. He is remembered as the God of Music...
...difficulty of adapting two of Dostoevski's lesser-known novels into the one film. Egor Efimov is the gifted violinist who will not prostitute his talent to the bourgeois ideas of the patrons of the arts. Although he wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot of troops ruthlessly suppressing revolution and that...