Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
Whether or not Sophocles is responsible for the music is a moot point. Some say yes; some say no; others dismiss the matter with a few well chosen cuss-words. The jokes at all events are Mr.Weller's. They are of a post-Sophoclean vintage, and considerably above the average...
...Venice in the Eighteenth Century" will be the subject for a lecture to be given tonight by Dr. Walter Starkie, of the University of Dublin. Lantern slides will illustrate the principal scences described, and violin selections of old music will provide an accompaniment. The lecture will be held at 8 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, and will be open to the public...
...Many persons have still to be informed . . . that Dayton hears . . . the best choral music sung today...
...kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, for the most exacting listener surely must admit that the choir...