Word: thirdly
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...gone on correcting his past mistakes, improving his tools, getting his music clearer & clearer. Last year, after groping steadily upward on a rickety ladder of complex, dry, carpentered scores (Symphony 1933, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Song for Occupations, etc.), Harris really hit his stride with a Third Symphony. No sooner was it finished than Boston's pompous Sergei Koussevitzky rushed to give it a premiere. No sooner had Koussevitzky played it than excitable Maestro Arturo Toscanini (who conducts few U. S. compositions) asked a chance to broadcast it with his NBC Orchestra. Last month (TIME, April 1) Victor...
...last week, when solemn, plodding Hans Lange gave Chicagoans a chance to hear it with the Chicago Symphony, Harris' Third Symphony had become the most talked-about U. S. composition in a decade. Said Koussevitzky: "This is the first truly great symphonic work to be written in America." Chicago critics, admiring its lean economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners...
...Palm Beach, Fla. Her first husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor, went down with the Titanic April 15, 1912, while U. S.-bound from their honeymoon; four months later she bore his posthumous son, John Jacob Astor. Her second husband: William Karl Dick, New York socialite (divorced 1933). Her third: Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist (divorced...
Last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee's third city, after many a postponement a new daily was born: George Fort Milton's evening Tribune. In Washington the Tribune was news because it brought Publisher Milton, an ardent New Dealer, back from unwilling retirement. In Chattanooga the Tribune was news because it revived a newspaper feud of some 16 years' standing...
Four years ago in Milwaukee the widow of Lucius William Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal, died leaving Harvard University $1,000,000 with which to ''elevate the standards of journalism." This week for the third time Harvard picked a group of working newsmen (15) to go to Cambridge, with salaries paid, to absorb whatever knowledge they thirst after as Nieman Fellows. Chosen from 221 applicants was a catholic list...