Word: solo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is many a story which people like to tell to show that I am a harum-scarum princess. Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
Later he did succeed in phrasing his ideas into a pianoforte solo, ''The Gargoyles of NotreDame," and it was this solo, elaborately orchestrated, that Conductor van Hoogstraten led last week. It was the first composition by a native of Portland that the symphony orchestra had performed, and Conductor van Hoogstraten took quick advantage of the situation. When the first clatter of applause quieted itself there were brought to the platform two wreaths, "evidently denoting genius, and certainly denoting musicianship and adeptness," wrote the Portland Oregonian's music reporter. Conductor van Hoogstraten, grinning, put one wreath about...
...first half of the program will be broadcasted direct from the ball by WEEI. Violin and xylophone solos by P. B. Diederich '28 and S. W. Burbank '29, respectively, will feature the program, which is as follows: Our Director Bigelow Dornroeschen Tohaikovsky Prelude to "Le-Deluge" String Orchestra Saint Saens Paul B. Diederich, '28, Violin soloist Selection from "The Student Prince" by Romberg. Sobre Las Oias Rosas Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter Scott W. Burbank, '29 March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa Volga Boatman's Song ATT. Jacchua Harvard Marches Fair Harvard...
...Concord program was as follows: 1. Our Director Bigelow 2. Dornroeschen Tchaikovsky 3. Prelude to "Le Deluge" String Orchestra P. B. Diederick '28, Violin Soloist Saint Saens 4. Hungerian March (Rakoczy) Berloiz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Grieg Arthur A. Landers, '28, Pianist Conducted by Miss Leginska 5. Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter S. W. Burbank '29 6. March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa 7. Selections from "Student Prince" Romberg 8. Fair Harvard