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Unsparing are Mustafa Kemal's efforts to teach his people A. B. C.'s. At a recent dance he stopped the conductor, and showed him how to make a few of the letters. Kemal has even converted his summer palace, beautiful Dolma Bagtche on the Bosphorus into a summer school. Obedient Turkish newspapers print daily alphabet exercises...
...alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski swore that he would carry these...
...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...Cleveland's Proud Record with Music" was a headline in a New York newspaper when Nikolai Grigorovitch Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, received two honorary degrees-one from Western Reserve University, one from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio...
...honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Peter Schubert, the citizens of his birthplace, Vienna, arranged to hear his music. Herr Franz Schalk, conductor of the state opera, directed a splendid performance of the Symphony in C. In the public square, 40,000 people, completely silent in the late spring sunshine, gathered below the musicians to listen. President Michael Hainisch, with his hat off and his white hair blowing, made a speech...