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...meteor-tracking Super-Schmidt telescopic cameras in Canada have been alerted to watch for the satellite, but Whipple indicated that he did not feel that adequate photographs of the object could be taken until a special telescope in South Pasadena, Calif., was able to observe it. Such observation will not be possible for at least ten days...
...exuberant architectural students turned artists in Dresden in 1905 who called themselves Die Brücke (The Bridge) in the confident expectation that they would "attract all the revolutionary and surging elements." With the "audacious idea of renewing German art" the Bridge group-Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and later Max Pechstein-set up their studio in an empty shoe store...
...green pear-bang-in a red bowl. We wanted to shock the person who looked at the picture. Looking at one of Kirchners women-on-the-street pictures, he should feel an erotic sensation, or repulsion, in any case some strong nervous response. Looking at one of Schmidt-Rottluffs monumental, somber compositions, he was supposed to feel touched, moved, overwhelmed...
...group of madrigals Schmidt used a reduced chorus of two dozen. An interesting comparison was afforded in two settings, a half century apart, of the same text--one, by Vecchi, lyric and smooth; the other, by Arcadelt, more dramatic. The singers displayed excellent precision in Lo Schernito, one of the bright and rapid fa-la-la pieces that Gastoldi made a specialty. There followed an amusing Impromptu, written last year by the talented young composer Kirke Mechem...
...Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...