Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost contemporary Do It Again. This is the first time, to the present reviewer's knowledge, that a serious artist, and one of the most scholarly sort, has included in a formal concert the sliding, slippery rhythms of jazz. The famed popular composer, Arthur Gershwin, was at the piano for the "modern American" group. That vouched for the jazzy authenticity of the piano rhythms. But how did a severely schooled soprano like Eva Gauthier among such rhythmic perversities? She did surprisingly well. Her voice was much too good for jazz. You will occasionally find good voices singing jazz...
Preceeding Professor Palmer's address were several piano solos by G. W. Woodward '24, accompanist of the University Glee Club. B. K. Little 1G. presided...
...addition to Professor Palmer's address, will be several piano solos by G. W. Woodward '24, accompanist of the University Glee Club. B. K. Little 1G., a member of the executive committee of the Graduate Schools Society, will preside...
...Ball Room will be the scene of the Ampico concert and dance which Simmons College is giving tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock for the benefit of its endowment fund. Madame Jacchia, the soprano, and Roland Tapley, a violinist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will accompany the Ampico player piano at the concert...
...intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded great, chanted chords as incisive as those of an orchestra. The Sistine Choir upheld the grandeur of a great name...