Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 14. Spain, Holland, Denmark, Norway. Switzerland and Sweden send a joint message advocating limited reduction of armaments for heavily armed powers, moderate rearmament for the rest...
...Loeb & Co.).* Four years ago when he organized the Stradivarius Quartet, Gerald Warburg toured with it to San Francisco. There he found Ernest Bloch teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory, chafing because he had so little time for composition. Warburg made it possible for Bloch to find peace in Switzerland, where he proceeded to learn Hebrew so that each accent, each phrase of his Sacred Service would have its perfect mystical setting...
...Switzerland has refreshed Bloch's musical powers, given him leisure to indulge his passion for mushroom-hunting, made him jovial. His gloomy look vanished with his beard, which he shaved off as a surprise for Suzanne when he met her in Genoa two summers...
Herman H. Field '32, of Cambridge, at present a student in the Graduate School of Architecture, has won an exchange fellowship for a year's study next year in Zurich, Switzerland...
This is followed by Mr. Thompson's 2nd Symphony written in Switzerland a short time ago. The composer has said of this symphony: "I have been sparing in my use of percussion punctuation in an attempt to make the music itself intrinsically rhythmic." In this he has amply succeeded. He has been so involved in this technical feat, however, that by the time the third movement is reached, the music strikingly resembles a popular tune. This is a fact not in the least derogatory to the symphony but it is likely to shorten its life when it becomes more generally...