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...Leon Trotsky: "No one is neutral about him. Trotsky is either loved or despised." Hero of the army. His aides are as smart as any in the French War Office. Un-Russian passion for orderliness. A "phrase-maker," orator. Regarded by his "comrades" as a mixed blessing...
...century ago Jonas Chickering, then a mere lad, a blacksmith's son in New Hampshire, set to work in his own name as a maker of pianos. There were at his disposal very limited financial means and but a few simple tools, but there were also at his disposal pluck, resourcefulness, persistency, love of his work and inventive genius. With these he wrought a great and lasting American achievement. His was the brain from which sprang the conception, his was the hand that laid the foundation of the splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout...
This was the general point of view when Dr. Davison took charge in the days before the war; but under his leadership the Glee Club established a remarkable reputation--that of a "maker of precedents". In 1919 it separated from the Instrumental Clubs, and began giving concerts of choral music, selected from old composers. Soon after, it gave its first joint concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and earned enthusiastic applause, and later sang in cooperation with artists such as Fritz Kreisler. In the summer of 1921 it visited France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and took Europe by storm...
...path has not been an easy one, for that of a precedent-maker never is. It has fought against the traditional conservatism of the college undergraduate and alumnus, until it has finally dethroned Polly-Wolly-Doodle and set up Mendelssohn instead. And voices which at first objected that the new Glee Club was not a Glee Club but only a Choral Society are heard no more--evidence enough that the Club's policy has won popular as well as critical favor. Public opinion has been "educated...
...once Mr. Monteux's genius as program-maker seemed to desert him, when, yesterday afternoon, he piled Franck upon Franck to the extent of boredom. The hundredth anniversary of Franck's birth must, I suppose, be celebrated in some way; it would seem however, as if a finer impression of Franck's genius would result from a program in which he was not so overworked...