Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again. Death stops to listen, steals away, leaves the Emperor, enlightened, happy. Stravinsky, strange, strident, sardonic, owed many of his most striking effects to Serge Soudeikine, who in designing the sets dared to do as much with wild, intoxicating color as Stravinsky did with his horns and strings rhd piano. Marion Talley (TIME, Mar. 1) was the Nightingale, never once seen. She stood in the orchestra pit with the players, right in front of Conductor Tullio Serafin, sang difficult music creditably, won curtain calls for herself alone, when it was all over, from an audience that found Stravinsky's cacophonies...
...resignation of J. G. Wright '28 from the position of leader of the Gold Coast Orchestra of the Instrumental Clubs Wednesday evening after the concert at the Union. C. E. Henderson '28 was elected to the position. Henderson plays the piano for all the separate divisions of the clubs, and gives two specialty acts. One is an imitation of a piano in a cheap moving-picture theatre. The other is a piano duet with Wright, the retiring leader...
...stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...
...view of the general high standard of excellence it would be almost invidious to particularize. Nevertheless, in justice one must remark upon the humorous insight evident in Mr. Henderson's "Piano Specialty", the rhythmic swing of the Mandolin Club's performance of the Strauss waltz, the excellent numbers furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra, including the inimitably accurate German band, the unusually fine violin solos by W. Lind, the highly diverting ventriloquist dialogue by M. Perry, the virtuosity of Mr. Benfield upon the marimba xylophone, and Mr. Moynahan's fantastic dance. Against these high lights furnished by individuals, the Banjo...
Besides these, the Gold Coast Orchestra of the Instrumental Clubs, and the Specialty Division, will put on their various acts. There are to be xylophone and violin solos by Harold Benfield 1G.B., and Albert Lind '29, respectively. J. H. Wright '28 and C. E. Henderson '28 will play a piano duet, and there will be selections by a Hawaiian quartet, made up of T. D. Howe '28, J. H. Monroe '27, L. V. Phelan '28, and E. M. Welton '26. Banjo specialties by L. V. Phelan '28, W. P. Pratt '28, and G. A. Norton '28, will also be featured...