Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme Schumann-Heink will sing songs of Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and Wagner. To comment on Mme. Schumann-Heink's artistry would be superfluous...
...From Sing-Sing Prison, N. Y., it was announced that one Lester Gerstenburg (16), "youngest prisoner awaiting the electric chair", has mastered the art of checker playing. Gerstenburg, in solitary confinement, shouts his moves, records on his board the move the other prisoners shout to him. He is "checker champion of the death house...
...there was naturally enough, a great deal of dissatisfaction with "Bright College Years," but with the end of the conflict it was expected that this song could be resumed. However, unforeseen difficulties arose. The inflow of prominent Allied visitors made it impossible on many occasions for the Elis to sing their college anthem. Of most vidid memory to Harvard men is the game in the Bowl two years ago when M. Clemenceau was the cause of "For God, for country, and for Yale" being sung mentally...
...last few years, and since for two years there have been clubs capable of defeating it in the annual contest, it is clear that the other clubs have substantially improved in this time. And as Dr. Davison's purpose has been to stimulate interest in music and singing--and with reference to the University Glee Club--to train his men to sing the best things satisfactorily, rather than to sing everything better than any other chorus this improvement of the other clubs is, for him almost as much of a triumph as the re-capturing of an often-won trophy...
...University Glee Club will again take part in the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club contest to be held this evening for the eleventh time in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Thirty men will sing in the Harvard chorus under the direction of E. F. Knauth...