Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday evening at 8 o'clock the Stradivarius Quartet of New York City will give the second concert of their Harvard series in the Court of the New Fogg Art Museum, under the auspices of the Division of Music and the Fogg Art Museum. At the first performance, given on October 21, the Quartet played to a packed audience at Paine Hall. Its program Monday will include the "Quartet in F major" of Beethoven, and Schumann's "Quartet in F major," Opus 41, number...
...Close of meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otalarynology at Atlantic City. Music...
...could better illustrate what is vulgarly known as 'coming down to brass tacks.' Professor W. R. Spalding, trained, as he says, by his father not to waste the time of important people, presented Mr. Eliot with a carefully wrought plan for improvement in the Department of Music. 'Mr. Spalding,' said the President, 'your argument is cogent and conclusive. Good morning...
...flower of contemporary music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms...
...same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...