Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days seem like holidays in Hawaii but one day this week was exceptionally festive. The bright streets of Honolulu were crowded. The warm air throbbed with music. Guns boomed salutes, soldiers tramped. The U. S. Territory of Hawaii was inaugurating a new Governor. After eight years' service, Wallace Rider Farrington was turning his office over to Lawrence McCully Judd...
Last fortnight Vienna beheld a street parade of floats representing all manner of trades and industries. Around and among the slow-moving floats pranced and danced umbrella makers, luggage manufacturers, butchers, bakers, florists, plumbers, executing dance figures appropriate to their trades. Specially composed music, tunes of historical significance, were recorded on phonograph discs, broadcast from a central station, picked up and amplified on the floats. Author of the spectacle was Rudolf von Laban, Austrian painter, philosopher, choreographer. He was demonstrating his point that dancing lends itself as well as any of the arts to the purposes of commerce...
...good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss Poulton standing wearily in front of the window out of which she is going to jump before she struggles, with dismayed and frantic awkwardness, to open...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...
...Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music or the orchestration is part of the film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than 35,000 musicians who used to play in theatres are out of their jobs (TIME...