Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most remarkable forces in our present music world is the modern virtuoso orchestra. Orchestral players have developed such faultless technique that it is very seldom that audiences find occasion for dissatisfaction. When occasion does arise, however, it is surprising how often the trouble seems to be in the brass section...
...part, and one can see that a small slip of the lip becomes terrifically embarrassing. An occurrence at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert recently has a very interesting bearing on this subject. Just before a long passage for muted strings a very important member of the first violin section lost his mute. He searched for it frantically, finally was forced to play the whole passage unmated; but the total effect was not too shocking...
Your story on Harvard in the Education section of the Oct. 16 issue carried statements from an article written by a Harvard undergraduate censuring Harvard's President Conant for his policies in the "hiring & firing" of young faculty members. Aside from several errors in the TIME story, among them that Professor Burbank quit the University (he did not), it seems to me that the story fails to make a fair attempt to present both sides of a controversial issue...
...cleaner manner than the 1934 Lunceford band could do (although the same wouldn't be true today), but it settles once and for all the argument as to whether all a band needs to play good swing is a bunch of musicians that can read and play section well, and a good arranger. The answer is gently but firmly...
...resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in usual order of half-sections-that is, by 'twos'-are attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines...