Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Kansas City Little Symphony and the soloist, Mrs. George R. Cowden, motored from Hays yesterday almost at the risk of their lives, because of slippery roads. The orchestra arrived at two o'clock, with one hour to unload piano, harp, trunks and instrument books from the trunks, and for luncheon. At three o'clock an audience of twelve hundred was in the gymnasium, one thousand of whom were school children. Tonight an audience of eight hundred brought the number to two thousand who heard the orchestra in spite of rain and muddy roads. Busses with school children...
Germans and Frenchmen were prime movers in filling a hall with the music manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...
...shortly after the Christmas vacation and under the coaching of W. M. Rice and B. S. Cogan '23 have made great progress. Besides the performances of the Banjo and Glee Clubs and the orchestra, the program arranged for the next three nights includes several specialties, among which are a piano recital by E. C. Biltcliffe '30, a conjuring act by DeWitt Stetten '30, and special music by B. D. Hanighen '30, and C. W. Eiseman...
...front of a piano in Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...second of the Sunday Evening Entertainments at the Union tomorrow night a saxophone trio under Roy Lamson Jr. '29 will play several popular musical numbers. R. M. Whittemore '29 will accompany the trio on the piano and will also render a specialty number...