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Every dorm, off-campus house and commuter group may submit either words to an old tune or an entirely original composition. The winning song will appear in the Radcliffe Red Book as an official college melody, and the group presenting it will win the Song Contest Silver Cup.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

Listen to the Boomlay. The 38-piece orchestra included 16 native percussion instruments (with names like the pio, chocalho de metal, reco-reco and matraca) which thumped and clattered and clapped the rhythm. At times the music was full of melody, as melancholy as a native chant. Sometimes it bumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Formidable! | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Now they are inseparable, buzz in & out of each other's houses, often leave their wives twiddling their thumbs at the gin rummy table while they rush to the piano with an idea. Each considers the other, in Hollywoodese, a "great genius." Sammy likes to say that Jule writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who Sings Shostakovich? | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

His music and his personality had a sprightliness that led his admirers to call him "the Italian Mozart." Few musicians passed through Paris in the 1860s without paying their respects to the great Rossini. When Richard Wagner called, and tried to explain his newfangled ideas, Rossini told him grandly: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Turk at Tanglewood | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

In dark Berlin, the lights blazed bright and late at a white sandstone building at 42 Schlüterstrasse. From the second-floor balcony windows, the sound of scores of stamping feet and the melody of a rousing polka carried into the silent street. Beyond the curtained windows, in one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: INTERMEZZO | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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