Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors, almost all of whom are remarkable for unaffected acting and outstanding musical talent. Without makeup and without tears, they become alive strictly on their own ability. The story concerns two young boys, one eleven, one twelve, whose genius for violin playing makes them a joy to their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such...
...octave higher. Callimahos played on it everything from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now visiting the U. S. for the first time (TIME, April 19). Nobody wondered that Callimahos should have been appointed the youngest teacher at the Mozarteum Summer-Academy in Salzburg. Even in Debussy's The Little Shepherd and Paganini's Caprice he was perfectly at home. But critics smitten with his precision admitted that Callimahos sometimes played monotonously and often with so little volume as to be almost inaudible...
...Vienna, School Teacher Waldemar Boden was sentenced to two months in jail for forcing his pupils to swallow half-inch iron nails as "proof of their loyalty...
...Kandinsky became a teacher in the Bauhaus in Weimar under the direction of Walter Gropius, appointed Professor of Architecture here early this year. With the writing of a book explaining his concept of post-Impressionism, "The Art of Spiritual Harmony", Kandinsky has fortified his advances in the field. The exhibition includes oil paintings, water colors, lithographs, and etchings, all done the World...
These are some of the questions which follow from the periodic dismissals which daily go unheralded and stir no comment, unless the teacher involved has a vociferous personal following. But they are questions that affect the University today, for, like any living organism, Harvard cannot continue to flourish unless it draws the best men in at the bottom and keeps them once it has wound its tentacles around them. For the Student Council to tackle these problems shows it is accepting its responsibilities in the College, and the investigation should prove the most important an far-reaching...