Word: widor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authority on French music, Edward B. Hill was born in Cambridge in 1872, studied under Paine, Chadwick, and Widor, and is now a professor of music here at Harvard. Since he first wrote his concerto for the violin in 1903 it has been revised, and, like most of his works, is pleasant and traditional in form. It is being played this week end to great advantage by Ruth Posselt, the local girl who has made good...
November 12, E. Power Biggs; November 19, Biggs; December 3, Carl McKinley; January 21, Miss Helen Hewitt; March 17, Mrs. Ruth Connision Morize; April 7, William Self; May 5, Professor Davison. Fugue in D-major Bach Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Bouree Handol Symphonic Romane Widor...
...Born in Alsace 59 years ago, Albert Schweitzer studied music under a church organist, was later taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters...