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Word: mandolin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard singers will give "Drake's Drum" by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore". The Harvard Mandolin Club will play selections from "Pinafore", another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and the Brahms Waltz in A Major. The Banjo Club will offer two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies", and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB IN CONCERT WITH YALE VOCALISTS | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Mandolin Club will offer selections from "Pinafore", another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and the Brahms' Waltz in A Major. Then the Harvard singers will offer two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies", and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs, closing with "Bright College Years" and "Fair Harvard", sung with the Yale Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PROGRAM READY FOR ELI GAME CONCERT | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs on Friday November 22; a performance at the Harvard Club of Hingham, Friday, December 6 will be the second; next will be a joint concert at Roxbury Latin School, Friday, December 13; the fourth will be a joint program of the banjo and mandolin clubs and the Gold Coast Orchestra, with the Williams College Glee Club at Williams town, Saturday, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIP PLANNED FOR INSTRUMENTALISTS | 11/7/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Instrumental Clubs will appear in four numbers. The Mandolin Club will play selections from "Pinafore", by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Brahms Waltz in A Major; the Banjo Club will be heard in a medley of college songs arranged by Rice, and in the Harvard song, "Veritas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND YALE GLEE CLUBS TO GIVE CONCERT | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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