Word: classics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Classic Boat Race on Thames...
...concert which will be held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on May 8 will be strictly an amateur performance, although an outside pianist or violinist may be engaged to vary the program. Each competing club will sing three pieces,--one serious or reasonably classic in style, on a light or humorous, and one of a college nature...
...three of the leading universities. There, men chose their universities according to the noted professors who delivered lectures. Five of the most distinguished men of Berlin University at this time were Curtius, Helmholz, Mommsen, Grimm, and Zupitza. Curtius was the famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg...
Tentative arrangements have already been made. Each club will include 30 men. The conditions of the competition are not restrictive, and the performance will not be greatly changed from that ordinarily given by a university glee club. Each club is to offer three selections: one serious selection, reasonably classic in style; one light or humorous selection; and one college selection. The judgment of the competition is to be based on general musical qualities such as technique, tone, diction, etc., and although special selections and solos may be arranged to lend greater variety they will be little considered in the final...
...Arthur Whiting, assisted by Miss Christine Miller, contralto, will give the second Chamber Concert in the series announced by the Department of Music in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Miss Miller will sing the same program of modern and classic songs that she presented at the Exposition of Chamber Music last evening, and Mr. Whiting at the piano will make explanatory comments on the English, German, and American compositions rendered. Single tickets for the concert at $1.25 each are on sale at Amee's bookstore...