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...concerts at Harvard and Yale last week and the students did not seem to mind. The New York League of Composers gave a concert and a reception which half the musical somebodies in town attended. Most of them looked bored or completely baffled but they listened politely to two string quartets, a group of songs, three piano pieces. Schönberg made a soft, frightened little speech. He was charmed . . . everyone was so kind...
...leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were...
Litman owes his promotion to his Grade A showing against West Point, while Wells has finally emerged as a halfback after starting the season at quarter. He will take the place of Franny Lane, who is the only first-string man now on Doctor Thorndike's casualty list. There is no possibility of Lane getting into the battle tomorrow...
...administration extends government paternalism over the farmers to a greater extent than at present the string of broken promises which must inevitably follow will precipitate disturbances more serious even than those now going on or threatening to break out. For regardless of the extent to which the government may carry its present policy of interference with the farmers, it cannot improve their condition more than it has already improved...
Army did not bother to use any first string men for more than one period against Coe, hence the crowd saw nothing of Jack Buckler. Of the incredible team which Coach Gar Davison has built from football wreckage in his first season, Halfback Buckler is the most dangerous player because of his ability to pass unerringly while running at top speed. Fortnight ago Yale rarely could guess what Buckler was up to, could do little about it when they guessed right...