Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first songs of the Harvard Glee Club will be "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore". After the intermission the Yale Glee Club will be heard again, in three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet on Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...
...Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising...
Three members of the first team suffered charley horses. They are Arthur Palmer, center; Tom Taylor, fullback, and Bob Hall, quarterback. Hoot Ellis had a recurrence of his knee injury, and was taken out, but will probably by session in action against the Crimson. Jin Stewart, substitute guard for Captain Greene, sustained several bad bruises and Truxton Hare was battered up con siderably. Neither of these two will probably work out with the rest of the Blue squad for several days...
Will Marion Cook, the Negro Schubert, is fiery, erratic, race-proud. Hearing young Taylor, ambitious, hang on a high note, he kicked him out of Manhattan's famed Clef Club (negro musical organization), shouting: "No can can be a niggah if he sings my music wrong...
Rosamund Johnson was next, arranger of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, composer on the African five-tone scale, whose voice is like a diapason. Taylor Gordon's is like molasses and a clear bell. They sang together. He trained Taylor...