Word: musics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tradition tonight, when it renders its first of three Yard concerts at 7 o'clock on the steps of Widener. These concerts held annually for many years have always proved to be one of the popular features of the Glee Club's season. The Club will sing mostly light music, and conclude the program with a number of Harvard songs. All members of the University present at the concert will be invited to join in the singing of these...
...more authentic than that which is heard. In verbal description there is but a series of separate images following one another; whereas in a picture, all images, all colors, appear simultaneously, blending into one, like to sounds in accord, which makes possible in painting, as well as in music, a greater degree of harmony than in poesy. Ask a lover which is more delectable to him - a portrait of his beloved or a description." EDGAR WEBB Director of Unit Managers Training The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City Mr. Webb refers to the "Ear v. Eye'' letter...
...this he told. Then he gave his body measurements and concluded, for whatever use it might be to Medicine: "I have been fond of music and literary work. Poor in mathematics. Not much given to sports. Have not used tobacco, alcoholic liquors or narcotics...
...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
Forty-seven years ago in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, little Igor Stravinsky was born, son of an opera singer. He was a child of terrifying musical precocity and an early tendency towards hair-splitting conversation. The law first attracted him and he attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...