Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs of the Longy School concert to night and of the Harvard Music Club concert tomorrow evening are two uncommonly fine examples of what can be done in planning programs of this type...
...richer democracies, a variety of goods is produced for universal consumption and the productive machinery is merely tapped, not regimented, for the use or revenue of the State-for an economy of warfare, Germany has developed out of her eco-nomic past a new and unique type of economy. The Italians have to a lesser extent followed the same method and the eagerly imitative Japanese have copied Nazi procedure since their Chinese adventure...
...what really made the visitors cup their ears was the singing of 65 straw-haired youngsters who compose St. Olaf's own Lutheran Choir. This choir has been rated by many a connoisseur as the finest of its type in the U. S., perhaps even in the world...
...country. His band is deservedly noted for the manner in which they play their tunes--great precision and timing, but still maintaining a solid Kansas City swing. Most unusual feature of the band is the rhythm in which they play a great many of their slow selections--a type of bounce style that never is as tiring as the Goodman four-four "smack." As to what bounce is, combine the sensations of riding over a bumpy road, and Hedy Lamarr for best explanation. Listen to the band's recording of "My Blue Heaven" and you'll see what is meant...
...works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing as he is instructive. Next Friday...