Word: score
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music room of his country palace, listening to a new symphony by his court Kapellmeister. The stocky, periwigged Kapellmeister himself sat at the harpsichord, bobbing out the rhythm with his head, cuing in an occasional oboe or bassoon with one lace-cuffed hand. Before him peered and labored a score of white-wigged, brocaded musicians. The first oboe closed the music on his stand, blew out his candle, tiptoed from the stage. The second horn followed. One by one, other musicians got up and went out. Soon there were only two violinists left. Together they played the symphony...
Almost before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...
...loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries for a show which opened this week. Both galleries paid and appealed...
...implication that the Fine Arts department is concerned only with the past period of history is hardly more valid than a condemnation of the history department on the score that it still gives a course on the Renaissance. "Living significance," as the Crimson calls it, is something which cannot be taught; which it is incumbent upon the individual to develop within himself; and which may vary with the individual...
Last weekend the Harvard team travelled south where it turned in two smashing victories over Pennsylvania on Friday six matches to one, and over Princeton the next day seven to nothing. Princeton had previously been beaten by Yale by a score of six matches to three. This fact coupled with Harvard's recent victories over the Union Boat Club Blues and the Harvard Club, gives the Crimson team a good chance of stopping Yale's consecutive string of victories...