Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more alarming capitals. Already the scheme of a "traffic cop for the air" is out of the musical comedy stage, as anyone will agree who has heard the exquisite discords emanating from the "magnavox",--the lady in Wellesley Hills trying to sing, the trio in Newark on the piano and two other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers. The general effect is something between water disappearing from the kitchen sink, a street car sour-milking round a curve...
...piano has been placed in the Smith Halls Common Room to replace the one provided by Phillips Brooks House. This piano is a "Concert Grand" from William Knabo & Company of Baltimore. The piano was bought with a part of the funds collected by this year's Freshman Dormitory Committee. Only a part of the cost of the piano has been paid by this year's Freshman class. The rest will be paid by the coming Freshman classes...
...compensate, Mme, Samaroff played the Schumann A minor concerto. This concerto has been played often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist...
...Bascom 2E.S., D. A. McKinnon '26, A. M. Sherrill '25, and C. D. Whidden '23. Miss Williams then returned, and for half an hour more kept her audience attentive and amused. A number of plantation melodies were played by Carrilo and W. L. Tibbets '26 in a piano and banjo duet...
...Marie Dalliere will give a violin recital this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Mme. Dalliere will be assisted by Mme. L. J. A. Mercier at the piano. The recital will be open to the public. The program follows: I. a). La Folia Corelli b) Praeludium and Allegro Pugnani II. Sonata No. 1 Schumann Mit leidenschaftlichem Allegretto--Lebhaft Ausdruck III. a) Sicilienne and Rigaudon Francols Francoeur b) Berceuse G. Faure c) Le Printemps Darius Milhaud IV. Poeme Ernest Chausson