Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...
...Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from...
According to the New York World, however, there must exist a great multitude of Babbitts, for it says editorially that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve...
Booth of Johns Hopkins won the race in 32 minutes and 10 seconds, a record for the Van Cortlandt distance. The order of the first nine men after Booth is: Bright of Carnegie Tech, Raymond of Maine, Hillman of Maine, Case of Syracuse, Master of Georgetown, McLane of Pennsylvania, Powell of Rutgers, Middleton of Syracuse, and Schmidt of Columbia. It can be seen that many of the colleges which had a runner in the first ten did not place in the final score. This is a result of the intercollegiate ruling that five men from each college must finish...
...series of six organ recitals given in Appleton Chapel under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06 of the department of music will take place this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The program will be rendered by Professor Davison, who is the University Organist and Choir Master, assisted by Miss Frances Morgan, violinist...