Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Division of Music there will be a free, public recital in the Music Building at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. Amelia Tataronis, soprano, will sing to the accompaniment of Arnold Hartmann, Jr., at the piano and Anna Golden, viola...
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
From there all-Finnish repertoire the chorus will sing here works by the composers Sibelius, Genetz, Kajanus, Jarnfelt, Haapalainen, Tornudd, Pesola, Turunen, Madetoja, Maasaio, Kuula, and Palmgren...
...street, a symphony conductor is somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...
...phonograph records. Much of this music shows rhythmic resemblances to jazz, includes drums, flutes, xylophones and chanting by long-headed Congo Negroes, by the Mambuti Pygmies, and by the Watusi. a race of 7-ft. African giants living as feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers, each one hooting his single note in turn. The Babira Negroes of the Ituri Forest punctuate the high-pitched gargling of their soloist with aggressive whoops. The Watusi Drummers hammer an intense counterpoint of rhythms more complicated than Gene Krupa...