Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listed as composer of four unpretentious musical impressions which Conductor Henry Hadley's Manhattan Orchestra played in St. George's Church. Fairly descriptive were the titles "Chinese Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored...
...hydraulic presses built so as not to crush the seeds in the process. From the presses the juice journeys through more aluminum pipes to more aluminum kettles, where it is again heated, this time to prevent fermentation. After spending several months in glass carboys to allow the cream of tartar to settle, the juice is siphoned off into bottles, pasteurized, shipped. The other important Welch process is that by which is made grape jam ("Grapelade"). Acid crystals had previously frustrated all attempts to make a commercial grape preserve until the Welch Company discovered (and patented) a process for extracting them...