Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibitions of bird drawings by the great naturalist Audubou, of mementoes of famous Gilbert and Sullivan operatta productions, and of notable Norwegian books and manuscripts are now open to the public at the Widener Library of Harvard University...
...problem of program-planning has received much publicity of late, with musicians and critics agitating strenuously for an expansion of repertoires to bring to light some of the vast literature of undeservedly neglected music. This is a question of greatest importance to the musical public, for music is unique among the arts in its inaccessibility. Only a few highly trained musicians can read scores with as much pleasure as they get from a performance, and though recorded music has provided us with a few musical musecums, actual performances are still the chief means of bringing music to life...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...
Preceding Hildegarde in the list of entertainers, G-Man Hugh H. Clegg related some of the more daring deeds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and described the work of Edgar Hoover's public-enemy-snatching machinery in Washington...
Milton Katz '27 of the Attorney General's office in Washington, will be lecturer on law, giving courses in Public Utilities and in the Regulation of Business. Professor Katz will also serve on the faculty of the School of Public Administration...