Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early this fall the music world worried while Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, underwent an operation for appendicitis in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 7). It marveled when he later announced that he would keep U. S. concert engagements scheduled for the winter and spring. Last week, however, he cabled his U. S. manager, George Engles...
...pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn in Spokane Poet Lindsay evolved what he calls Poem Games, in which children dance and act out poems simultaneously chanted by a reciter. "I recommend it," says Poet Lindsay, "to parents tired of psycho-analysis." Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay is now a shout (he has whispered...
...Club will appear in many concerts besides this as usual, in schools, and public concerts in and out of Cambridge. The so-called single concert in Symphony Hall is the result of a new policy by which the Glee Club is advancing from the field of men's voice music into the more extensive, interesting, and natural, library for mixed voices. It is believed that this is progress musically, and that it will prove more varied and interesting to the audiences. The Glee Club by no means intends to give up men's voice music, but has prepared a complete...
...opportunity for progressive effort which the inclusion of female voices offers in choral music will widen the repertoire of the Glee Club beyond the unfortunately narrow field in which they were previously working. Such a departure from the conventional college glee club practice is a worth while addition to the policy of advancing the standards of the Glee Club library which Dr. Davidson has so assiduously executed...
...Majestic Theatre affords mild entertainment in the form of a musical play entitled "Woof Woof"--selfstyled "a romantic musical comedy". The romance is trite, the music negligible, and the comedy pretty thin, although the general effect is not unpleasing as musical comedies...