Word: newman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Newman (TIME, Oct. 13), long critic of the London Sunday Times, is for this year guest critic of The New York Evening Post. There is probably no critic writing in English whose estimates of contemporary music are of more interest...
...German music is fat and heavy-weight," says Mr. Ernest Newman, distinguished music critic of the London Sunday Times, now visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...
...five Harvard representatives were Edward S. Emery '87, assistant comptroller of the University, Dr. George H. Wright '03 of the Harvard Dental School, Nathaniel Newman, a third year dental student, W. I. Nichols '26, and A. G. Cooke...
...Wright was named chairman of this committee, and his four assistants are Mrs. Lucy J. Franklin, dean of women at Boston University, Dean Stephen Rushmore of the Tufts Medical School. Donald Hooper, a student at M. I. T., and Nathaniel Newman of the University Dental School...