Word: obligato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...
...latch string obligato at the organ recital yesterday afternoon has left many persons with a distinct distaste for Harvard concerts manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
...program follows: Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpius O Vos Amnes Vittoria Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Fiute Obligato by Carlton Sprague-Smith Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Weelkes Give a Rouse Bahtock Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpneus" Gluck Flute Obligato by Carlton Sprague-Smith Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan Intermission Two Folk Songs The Turtle Dove Arranged by Williams Swansea Town Arranged by Halst The Hundred Pipers Scottish Folk Song Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner
...trace of the female impersonator. He can dance. There is no doubt that he does dance. His dancing of Alger's "Hobby Horse Hop" stopped the opera completely and several hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about Mr. Wilson, so why shouldn...
...Adoramus Te Palestrina Cherubic Hymn Tschesnokov Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav'nly Light Bach The Harvard Glee Club 2. Fantasia, F minor Chopin Prelude (Posthumous) Chopin Mazurka Chopin Etude Chopin Mlle Novaes 3. Adieu, Sweet Amarillis Wilbye Vieille Priere Bouddhique Boulanger Now is the Time of Christymas Bax (Flute-obligato by Georges Laurent) Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Holst Hymn to Manas--Hymn to Soma --To Agni The Harvard Glee Club 4. El Albaicin Albeniz Mephisto Valse Liszt Mlle, Novaes 5. Pirate Song Gilbert...