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...system creates a condition of high costs arising out of high wage rates in America and public works everywhere. The resulting high taxes constitute a major element in private business administration...
Architect Delano: "Architecture is an art and not a business. ... I believe that the tendency today to let the engineering element dominate is unfortunate." Architect Howe declared that traditionalists divide "the architecture of the soul from the engineering of the body. Taking them at their word, engineers have gracefully yielded them the spirit and kept the flesh, together with the fleshpots, for themselves...
There are very few composers, if any, who can stand beside Handel in choral writing. After centuries of evolution, music for voices as a definite expressive element reached the apex of development in his works, a peak that never again has been reached. Later masters, such as Mozart and Beethoven, studied his writings sedulously in an effort to compose as tellingly for voices as he did; yet, in net effect, his works stand unrivalled...
...turned to the Concerto, which in its contemporary state proved to be too heavy. Either some new form was needed, or some old one had to be developed. Handel decided upon the latter. Let the concerto be a show piece for the player's virtuosity, by injecting the element of display. Not only did Handel introduce many decorative passages, but in many places he supplied a figured bass, leaving the interpretation to the soloist. Then he went still further by putting a pause at a given point in the music over the rest in the accompaniment, with the words, "Organun...
...important element in these two contests was the work of Goalie Bud Kieckhefer in the nets Kieckhefer had played on only one varsity contest before the Quad games, but Murdoch decided to give him the nod over veteran Harry Holt, and the Junior netminder has already proven his worth...