Word: nevins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles are ignored by the modernists, even though they are folk art. As Mr. Frank points out, aesthetic acceptance depends on the intrinsic value of art, whether it be folk or fine. If jazz is good it is good because it is jazz, not because it is American. To be pedantic...
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
...Mandolin Club, unique in being the sole organization of its kind in the country to use only wooden instruments, will play more orchestral music such as the Pizzicati of Delibes and Oanzone Amorosa by Nevin...
...guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington...
...Stranahan '21. The program is as follows: 1. Medley, Arrangement Rice Banjo Club. 2. Adoramus Te, Giovanni Pierluggi Palestrina (1526-1594) Now Let Every tongue, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Glee Club. 3. Specialty. Messrs. Elliott, French, Henderson, Stranahan. 4. Specialty. F. S. Stranahan '21. 5. Amorosa, Ethelbert Nevin Mandonn Club. 6. Specialty. Pianologue H. Elliott, Jr., '22. 7. Matona, Lovely Maiden, Laffus My Bonnie Lass, Thomas Morley (1557-1603) Glee Club. 8. Souvenir, Drdla Mandolin Club. 9. Nocturne op. 31, No. 2, Gliere Violin, S. N. Stevens '20. 'Cello, C. H. Warner '21. Piano, R. S. Childe...