Word: octet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death, passion and intelligence played prime parts in Elinor Wylie's verse. To "One Person" she dedicated a wreath of 19 love sonnets. The octet to the fifth...
...Sigma Alpha Mu won the touch football championship of the University yesterday afternoon by defeating the Smith Halls octet...
...program will include renditions by the vocal club, the banjo club, the mandolin club, the 1931 orchestra, and the combined clubs. Several special features have also been arranged including piano solo and duet numbers, and a program by a vocal octet. The concert will be followed by dancing...
...tonight to witness one of the land-marks in the history of the so-called new movement in music in Boston. For attention is being entered tonight on music written for the most part for small combinations of instruments, music which has rarely been heard previously. Works like the "Octet" by Stravinsky, and portions of the same composer's "Story of a Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice and instruments, "Dierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg, which has created a sensation in other cities where the movement has been...
...Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde converged upon the Mayflower Hotel in an uproarious phalanx around...