Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierian Sodality of 1808, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, will give a joint concert with the Radcliffe College Orchestra at 8.15 o'clock Friday evening in Agassiz Hall. The program will be featured by a violin solo, the Beethoven concerto in D. Major, played by Priseilla Thierry '35 Radcliffe...
...program: Haytden's Toy Symphony Radcliffe Orchestra Holst's St. Paul Suite Combined Orchestras Hayden's Second Symphony First Movement Pierian Sodality Beethoven's Concerto in D Major Violin Solo by Priscilla Thierry Grieg's Herzwunden Der Fruhling Combined Orchestras Rimsky-Korsakov's Danse des Bouffons Pierian Sodality
There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm one or the other theory, Lee Edward Travis of University of Iowa's Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs...
...shop. His principal remaining asset, one large antique bed, was a problem which the timely arrival of Morris Rosenberg, a penniless fiddler, helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night with Elizabeth, an idealistic prostitute, they all lived together as innocently...
With her Siamese cat, husband, violin and 28 pieces of metal baggage, capable grey-haired Malvina Hoffman sailed into New York Harbor last fortnight. Three-quarters of the largest sculpture commission ever given a woman was completed...