Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public auditorium of which Portland, Ore., is proud, Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten last week led his symphony orchestra through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved...
Later he did succeed in phrasing his ideas into a pianoforte solo, ''The Gargoyles of NotreDame," and it was this solo, elaborately orchestrated, that Conductor van Hoogstraten led last week. It was the first composition by a native of Portland that the symphony orchestra had performed, and Conductor van Hoogstraten took quick advantage of the situation. When the first clatter of applause quieted itself there were brought to the platform two wreaths, "evidently denoting genius, and certainly denoting musicianship and adeptness," wrote the Portland Oregonian's music reporter. Conductor van Hoogstraten, grinning, put one wreath about...
...Spokane, Washington; Hugo Frederick Blumenberg of Wheeling, West Virginia; David Miller of Mineral Wells, Texas; William Brainerd Carmen Jr., of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota; Warren Eugene Hoagland of Kansas City, Missouri; Irving Herman Jurow of Brooklyn, New York; Kenneth David McCracken of Paxton, Illinois; and Nathan Allen Cobb, of Portland, Maine...
...Portland...
...over the bounds of which humble Herman had wickedly stepped. When Playwright George Bernard Shaw spoke out in London and denounced Christmas, the commercial phenomenon, as "an unbearable nuisance," they put the shoe on the other foot and called Mr. Shaw "George Bernard Scrooge,? publicity-hunter." When the Portland (Ore.) Ministerial Association passed a resolution against Christmas giving, there were editorial boos and jeers...