Word: ferruccio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome. At the Institute's 60th Convention, next month, Chairman C. Grant La-Farge of the new committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives...
...what a lot of thunder the Institute is able to stir up every year over the award of a first prize of $1,500, a second of $1,000, and a third of $500. But even if the amounts were not, perhaps, sumptuous, they were very gratefully received by Ferruccio Ferrazzi, K. X. Roussel, and Robert Spencer, an American...
...William B. Faville, C. Grant La Farge, McKim, Meade & White, Charles Platt, Irving K. Pond, John Russell Pope, Egerton Swartwout, York & Sawyer; Sculptors Herbert Adams, Carl Akeley, James E. Eraser, John Gregory, C. P. Jenne-wein, Lorado Taft; Landscape Experts James L. Greenleaf, Charles N. Lowrie, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ferruccio Vitale...
...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...