Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Button-eyed, sheepish-smiling Sylvia Foodim, 8, smoothed her dress, perched herself at a big piano, gravely played Beethoven and Schumann, rattled through a Schubert scherzo. She was the youngest. A dozen other dressed-up girls, and one boy, took their turns at the piano. Thus Manhattan's Greenwich House Music School exhibited, in a formal recital, what its piano department is doing for slum children. In the springtime, as their year closes, many of the 50-odd settlement music schools in the U.S. give concerts for friends and potential benefactors...
...Robert Schumann, Bedrich Smetana, Edward MacDowell, Hugo Wolf died insane...
...Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Pianist Coenraad V. Bos; Victor: 8 sides; $3.75). Romantic Robert Schumann wrote Woman's Love and Life-eight songs to poems by Chamisso-to hymn domestic love. Warm-voiced Soprano Traubel puts proper schmalz in such lines as (to a wedding ring) I place thee, holy object, upon my lips, my heart...
...Should the United States go to war against the Axis powers, if necessary to insure a British victory?" C. S. Bridge '42, T. C. Carroll '42, T. Gardiner 1L., R. J. M. Matteson 1G. 9:30 Radio Workshop's drama "King Cotton Uncrowned." 9:45 Concert Hall: Bach Concerto, Schumann Symphony No. 1. 10:45 Bed Time Corner--"Three Little Pigs," told by member of Fine Arts Dept. News...
...other hand, the Schumann A major quartet that the Stradivarius men played, did ring true. Not one of Schumann's greatest works, like all his work, it diffused a fresh lyrical charm which was a pleasure to listen to after the nervous pyrotechnics of the Martinu quartet...