Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They played Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Brahms' Quartet in C minor; then, after a rest, they smiled among themselves, stroked the glossy wood of their instruments, began to play a strange composition. It was Ernest Schelling's Divertimento, for string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events...
Leaning against a grand piano, Prof. Baker thanked them...
...Vocal Unit" of 25 voices will render several of the old time popular and college songs which have been in great demand lately. G. B. Moynahan '26, popular dancing expert, will give several of his weird and clever exhibitions. Among the other specialty vaudeville acts will be a piano duet by Donald Frothingham '27 and S. L. Keleher '27, who played together all last year. At the close of the program the clubs will give a dance, supplying their own jazz orchestra under the direction of J. R. Wright '26. The management feels that tonight's program, shorter than that...
Thus hearty Mr. Cochran, generous with dollars, jokes, and rich in both, came to own the piano. Immediately he presented it to the Association. Then the 18 artists played We Won't Go Home Till Morning. They improvised chopsticks; the tune was recorded on a player-piano role, auctioned by Mr. Damrosch to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...that it is time for their morning exercises. He cracks a small joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...