Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not write skin-deep music for anyone's money. Son of a poor Russian violinist who brought him to Manhattan's East Side as a baby, Composer Gruenberg, 54. is dreamy, soft-voiced, soft-eyed. He studied piano under Ferruccio Busoni, became dissatisfied even though his teacher said he had "God-graced hands." Gruenberg's early, romantic Hill of Dreams won a $1,000 prize given by Harry Harkness Flagler for the New York Symphony. He turned to syncopated dissonances in The Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers...
Commonwealth has as yet given no John Reed, nor even a Heywood Broun, to the Cause, and in recent years its internal troubles have griped it more than the occasional forays of its students and teachers into areas of labor strife have irritated capitalists. Five years ago two-thirds of Commonwealth's student body went on strike, presumably because the institution's brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded...
Eunice left her school in Sneedville this spring when Teacher Wade Ferguson switched her for "jumping around." What Teacher Ferguson had to contend with was revealed last week by Eunice's father-in-law, Nick Johns, who turned up in Treadway to inquire about the possibilities of an annulment. He snorted: "She can't learn nothin' in school and she can't learn nothin' at home. I tried to learn her at home, but she don't even know her ABC's. She can't count...
...Henry Street Settlement, and knows the hazards city life presents to the young. Deploring the fact that for generations musicians have been writing down to the young, he wrote 21 songs, for which Composer Marks did 21 tunes, which are mature, rhythmic yet easily singable, easily playable by teacher or parent. The collection is to be published as Sing a Song of Safety, with illustrations by Rose ("Kew-pies") O'Neill...
...urchin writes a love letter to the richest little girl in his class, who haughtily hands it in to teacher, who sends the culprit to the principal, whose amused understanding helps open the urchin's eyes...