Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moved to express his soulful feeling by something else than the concord of sweet sounds. Not once during the whole course of the examinations has a word of complaint been uttered; but the time his come when pent-up sufferings must at last find vent in words. Neither the piano flend, nor the man who plays any of those hideously shaped, and fearful sounding instruments-whose names are known only to members of the Pierian Sodality-is here found fault with; but the man who thinks he can yodel. This man, we grieve to say, has more faith...
...irritable frame of mind, and are apt to become excited over trifles which pass unheeded in happier times. This state of feeling has been shown in past years by incessant complaints of the thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms...
Concerto for Piano in F minor, Henselt Hungarian Dances (1,2 and 6), Brahms Symphony in A minor, (No.3), Mendelssohn...
...satisfactory manner; the performance was as hard and dry as it well could be, and entirely lacking in any musical warmth of feeling whatever. The notes were all executed in a very business-like manner: but beyond that there were none of the characteristic of good piano playing. The taking Hungarian dances by Brahm proved to be the most popular number on the programme, in response to the enthusiastic applause, the second was repeated,-a thing, by the way, which we do not remember to have happened in Cambridge since the Symphony Orchestra was established. The Mendelssohn Symphony,-the "Scotch...
...correspondent suggests that the German law, which makes aggressive piano-playing a criminal offence, be incorporated into the statutes of the university...