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Word: piano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Manger, 29, is 6 ft. 2 in. and shy. He has never lifted a piano, a horse, or a safe. In Baltimore he is a printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...played by Jesus Maria Sanroma, soloist of the Boston Symphony, and a series of five odes of Horace for mixed chorus by the University Double Quartet and the Wellesley College Choir. The Durrell Quartet will perform the string quartet, "The Wind in the Willows," and the composer at the piano will render his suite for pianoforte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL PLAY SELECTIONS BY HARVARD GRADUATE | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

Stravinsky's power of attraction lies in his reputation for being "primitive." He is "primitive" no longer, but Les Noces is a perfect example of what used to be meant by that term. Written for percussion instruments, piano, four soloists and a chorus, it was given last week under the enthusiastic baton of Philadelphia Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Les Noces | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIND SEXTET GIVES CONCERT IN PAINE HALL THIS EVENING | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

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