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...until 1865, when bearded President Frederick A. P. Barnard took over, ear trumpet and all, that Columbia began to achieve something like its present stature. The only trouble was that though Dr. Barnard was long on ideas, he was perpetually short of money. An educational statesman, he advocated honors courses, modern languages, the admission of women ("conducive to good order"), uniform entrance requirements for U.S. colleges, and teacher training. He looked forward to the day when Columbia would be a great university, complete with such modern additions as schools of engineering, architecture and commerce. Nevertheless, Columbia stayed...
...American arrives in Britain to tell us what to think and what to believe. God's Own Country has always run a brisk export line in evangelists. They come in all shapes and sizes . . . We've had kids like seven-year-old Renee Martz, who tooted a trumpet and sang in Chinese. We've had 'Little David,' the teen-age 'miracle healer.' Now we're getting Mr. Billy Graham." The pinko, nationalist New Statesman and Nation ran verses by Sagittarius. Sample stanza...
Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Trumpet, Piano & String Orchestra (Roger Del Motte, Serge Baudo; Champs-Elysees Theatre Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour; Westminster). Debussyan impressionism and Stravinskyan neoclassicism get taken for a mocking ride in this single movement, but it is not quite so witty in this performance as the composer seems to intend...
...trumpet I convey...
Solo for Ear-Trumpet, by Edith Sitwell...