Word: schlaikjer
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...work seems not, even after several hearings, to have justification for its length or most of its peculiar characteristics. The performance suggested that Mr. Senturia had steered the group well through the score's most complicated sections. Only a lovely oboe introduction to the first movement by Carl Schlaikjer seemed anything more than competent. But then, in this piece, a competent performance constitutes a major achievement in itself...
...minor concerto (no. 1) for violin and oboe often failed to express the grace and flexibility in this lovely music. The soloists were the winners of the orchestra's concerto contest: John Austin played a rather discreet fiddle, which was occasionally overwhelmed by the powerful oboe playing of Carl Schlaikjer; nevertheless both parts were very well done. The other competition winned was E. S. Stewart, whose Variations on a Melody won the contest for undergraduate compositions...
Freshmen-stroke, LaPorte; 7, Schlaikjer; 6, Cole; 5, Seed; 4, Barnard; 3, Blum; 2, Watson; bow, Harrington; cox, Williams...
...huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
Discovery of this rare and important specimen, which has an unusually wide head, was made in Wyeming in 1930 by Erich M. Schlaikjer on field research for the museum, but has not been made public until...