Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the regular concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program: Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Beethoven's Overture to "Egmont"; Arensky's Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, and Mozart's Symphony in G major...
...book is about the last word in flippant sophistication. The co-authors (rumored to be one and the same person) toss a theme somewhat lighter than a bubble about their pages, grazing matters sacred and profane in its progress...
...Stadium be called hereafter the "Haughton Stadium". Certainly no one individual has contributed so much to make it the scene of Harvard football might and skill as Haughton. By using to the utmost his great power of persuasion he firmly implanted in the minds of his pupils the theme that the Stadium was no ordinary football field but Harvard ground. The results he achieved make glorious Harvard history...
...most of his audience were all in Symphony Hall on the occasion of his first appearance as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But it was due wholly to Mr. Koussevitsky's accomplished and masterful rendering of a program including Berlioz' overture, Roman Carnival, Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn and, notably, Honegger's Pacific, 231, that the enthusiastic audience was still there practically en masse at the end of the program...
...Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story for 1924, which also has a Southern theme. "The Secret at the Cross-roads", as Jefferson Moseley has called his play, deals with the race question, not as a theorist searching for causes, but as a writer of clear vision dealing with facts...