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Professor Burkhard's book, the fifteenth volume in the series "Meister der Graphik", is devoted to Burgkmair's woodcuts. The 96 illustrations have been chosen to trace the development of the artist from his early manner, still largely bound by tradition, to the complete independence and command of style shown in such works as the portraits of Jacob Fugger and Pope Julius II, and in the several series of woodcuts commissioned by the Emperer. A chronological catalogue, and a concordance supplying references to previous important works on Burgkmair, give the book especial value for students of this period; while...
...Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association, is as much to blame as Depression. It demands $268,822 for 97 players (in 1891, the payroll for 80 players was $90,000). Understanding musicians used to run Chicago's music union but now shrewd swart James C. Petrillo is in command. Said he last week: ''There is no question of a reduction of the wage scale. ... If the public will not pay for good music, it is Chicago's loss...
General Ward graduated from Harvard in 1748. He was the first to command the Revolutionary forcee, although he later became second in command...
Good artists who ask nominal fees can command as good tours as ever. Baritone John Charles Thomas sings for $1,500 but his 92 engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
...harbored secret plans for running away to join a circus band. For seven weary years he had assiduously scraped his practice fiddle; now with all the confidence that the maturity of his thirteen summers could impart, he determined to practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read to the awed stripling a list...