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Paris in 1830. Berlioz had just won the Prix de Rome after repeated failures. He went to hear Liszt play Weber's Concertstück, at the finish publicly embracing Liszt. That night the two musicians entered a drawing room together where musical prejudices were being aired, where Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine...
Last week the Prix de Rome for architecture was awarded to Clarence D. Badgeley, 27, of Springfield, Ohio. Badgeley is the third Ohio man in four years to win the Prix de Rome. He gets three years in Rome, lodging at the American Academy there, and $1,300 a year...
Another jury, the one that judges the competition in painting and sculpture for the Grand Prix de Rome (fellowships amounting to $2,000 a year and including tuition and a studio at the American Academy in Rome), gave their awards to Deane Keller, a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts, for an allegorical painting, "The Genius of Medicine," and to Joseph Kisselewski of Browerville, Minn., for a memorial sculpture...
...Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his pen and the Croix de Guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light, and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose nauseatingly unforgettable. With such a man what is to be done? He was among the first to turn up to view the festering underside of Glory in his War novel Le Feu (Under...
...since then has been Curator of Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of the University. He has made 14 expeditions to Central America gathering material which has led to the recovery of much ancient history and science. His book "Maya Art" was awarded the Prix Anguand by the French government. On December 27, 1925, Harvard announced that Dr. Spinden had solved the mystery of the Venus Calendar of the Mayas by which the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan began a record of celestial events in the sixth century...