Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monotonous forms are always inflexibly the same." All critics admire his virile compositions, his color effects. In his art they perceive that however repetitious his works, they are all like the man himself, boldly individualistic. Since he has no patience with the life or art that shelters itself from wind and storm, he finds queer things happen to him. He was born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three...
Just what time Wide's race will come on the program has not been decided as yet, though the Swedish speedster feels that there will be less wind to hinder him if his race is run as late as possible in the afternoon...
...Water, Wind...
...premiere in Paris (TIME, March 21). The young composer's theory is to express the U. S; in its own terms of steel, machinery, physical strength, without employing jazz. To this end he has created a symphony of percussion instruments, ten mechanical pianos, several xylophones, assorted bells, wind machines, aeroplane propellers, etc., abjuring completely more lyrical aids. The ballet is a thunderstorm of noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed to the guards, sat quite still for perhaps two minutes. Then men began shouting across the auditorium. Paper darts sailed down from the galleries. Some people rammed their...
...week for regulars, $75 per week for extras and substitutes. They had been getting, respectively, $80 and $55. But, unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James C. Petrillo of the Chicago Musicians Association was obliged to announce that there will be no Chicago Symphony next year. Messrs. Jiskra, Recoschewitz, Napolilli, Trnka, et al. prepared, as a bad press punster wrote, to disband...