Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program permitted, the orchestra confirmed its every virtue as a band of these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...
...decree calls for a purely consultative assembly composed of from 300 to 360 members of both sexes, all of whom will be appointed (not elected) by Primo. The members will be chosen from municipal bodies, from the ultra-conservative Patriotic Union, from representatives of the fields of commerce, science, arts, letters, agriculture, industry. They will have no power to pass legislature, but they may formulate legislative proposals, which Primo de Rivera may accept or reject as he sees...
...Manhattan. In the Guild Theatre, Manhattan, a newly organized society, The Musical Forum, plans to present on certain Sunday even- ings programs of concert music that, in the ordinary course of the season, would not be heard. It does not propose to emphasize ultra-modern compositions. Kurt Schindler is director...
...Publication. Ultra-modern musical compositions will soon see print through the agency of a quarterly magazine called New Music, published by the New Music Society of California. Not articles on music but only music itself will be printed. The first issue will appear about Oct. 1. If there are profits, they will be divided among the composers...
Dewar's Ne Plus Ultra...