Word: musically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every hour on the hour he leaves his beer, turns out the stage lights, and addresses the piano. Hr begins every tune with a style just this side of Eddie Duchin, but infinitely more subtle; this pleasant music may last for as many as 32 bars before the cocktail pianist gives way to the ragtime revivalist. Sutton plays almost no ragtime "classics"--his entire repertoire consists of such out-of-context numbers like "Just One of Those Things," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "Body and Soul...
...series of "symphony forums designed to bring good music to the students at low prices" is being instituted by the National Student Association, N.S.A. officers disclosed last night. The first concert in this series will be given at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Rindge Auditorium when the First Veterans' Orchestra will present a concert of light classics...
Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...
When he completes his three weeks of concerts in Chicago (where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that...
...Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students...