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...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...
First time the question was asked Alpha caused Inventor May no end of embarrassment by croaking: "The Raleigh Observer-Times" Blaming the lapse upon the damp weather, Professor May quickly dictated a new wax cylinder, had Alpha repeat over and over in a cockney bass: "I read the News & Observer." But flushed tobacco farmers were not impressed, paid more quarters to see the hootchy-kootchy...
...made his U. S. debut with the Boston Symphony, playing a Concerto especially composed for him by Maurice Ravel. Bostonians closed their eyes because it seemed incredible that a single left hand could compass a keyboard so quickly and completely, make the treble sound clear and strong while the bass poured out a seething undercurrent. Compared with most pianists, Paul Wittgenstein has a fairly small hand. His trick was to train it to lightning speed, to develop his pedal technique so that he could cover transitions gracefully and subtly, give a solid, two-handed effect...
...salver of bread & salt, Deputies, generals, priests, rabbis, ladies-in-waiting. There, too, was a guard of honor, stiffly at attention, with the national colors draped in black. Little King Peter knew what he must do. Loudly his childish treble piped out: "May God help, heroes!" Back came the bass roar of the Guards: ''God keep...
...unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston was apathetic to a composer who at that time preferred to remain anonymous. When last week's audience approved the passacaglia, prouder than Victor the valet was a plump motherly...