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...regimental band will appear for the first time today when the parade starts from Fresh Pond. It will take its place at the head as soon as Mr. Baker has finished his inspection of the trenches. There will be approximately 30 pieces under the direction of Chief Musician Carmichael, who has been the leader since the origin of the Corps. All the members of the band will be equipped with new regulation silver-plated instruments...
From Henry Goldman, "The Musician", by Holbein...
...trained choruses from the New England Conservatory, Appleton Choir, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The purpose of these lectures is in every way "popular." To those who know little or nothing of the history of musical development and of the composers of music, as well as to the trained musician, what Dr. Davison has to say will be of exceptional interest...
...Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Indian poet, musician, educator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging...
Tagore's literary fame, which in 1913 was publicly recognized by the award of the Nobel Prize, is so great as to over-shadow that of his other attainments. He possesses unusual ability as a musician, and also devotes much of his time to the management of a boys' school which he has established in India and is conducting on principles of self-government similar to those of the George Junior Republic. The views of such a many-sided personality are certainly worth listening to, even if they do not coincide with those of our Occidental civilization...