Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems of the commuting student is to improve the Center itself, to make it the physical equivalent of the Houses. This answer is not so obvious, however, when one realizes that a large segment of University officials believes that the idea of a commuters center is basically out-of-tune with the philosophy of a Harvard education, and that money spent on such a center is money wasted...
Later, Borodin wrote a funeral march and a mazurka around the tune, which he called the Coteletten Polka* and proudly showed the pieces to his musical friends. Rimsky-Korsakov promptly added several variations; other composer friends chipped in too, and before long there were 16 paraphrases. All were written for piano duet, the lower part for a skilled player, the upper for two fingers. In 1879, when the collection was published, Liszt got a copy, and added a paraphrase...
Every name is a tune...
Back in the '20s and early '30s, Bessie Smith was the rage of the blues world. She could punch a tune or wail it soft. She stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 210 Ibs., and she drank gin as if it were water. She died in an automobile crash in 1937. Her friends thought she was about 50, but nobody knew for certain...
...nickel's worth of jukebox tune, which runs about 2¼ minutes, costs 2.2? a minute, he calculated. Buffalo's ten-concert season costs (at two hours for each concert) a little more than half a cent a minute. Black's conclusion: the jukebox player pays about four times as much for his scratchy grind music as he would for live symphonic music. And that is not all, reported Black. If the orchestra, like a jukebox, should stop playing every 2¼ minutes, "the student would have to make 53 trips to the podium during the symphony...