Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of U. S. music. But while Manhattanites undoubtedly hear more music than other U. S. citizens, the place where U. S. music seems to be coming from is Evanston, Ill. When the directors of Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society last year established an annual prize of $1,000 for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer, the prize went to Composer Gardner Read of Evanston...
Last week the Philharmonic-Symphony directors announced the result of their second annual competition. Again the prize went to an Evanston musician: a strapping, blond-whiskered composer named David Van Vactor. A sole honor able mention in the same competition went to Composer Mark Wessel, onetime stu dent and teacher of composition at Evanston's Northwestern University...
Composer Van Vactor, whose Symphony in D won the prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...
Officials of Westinghouse Co., gathering material to go into an 800-lb. cupaloy* time capsule which is to be buried 50 feet in the earth on the New York World's Fair site, not to be opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need...
...week of premium time, 84 hours on four (two for NBC) networks. But sponsors are also reluctant to buy time in opposition to a show which is a great national favorite. That again reduces the amount of premium time, keeps a keen edge on the competition for the prize hours even in depression years. It also tends to make advertisers strain to keep their hold on time that has served them well, and is one more stabilizing and recuperative factor in the radio business...