Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke is no mere spellbinder. He has assembled a band that has great swing soloists--topnotchers all--but more important, when they play ensemble work, it is music of a kind that is played nowhere else in this country. Many critics believe it to be a cross between contemporary classical works and the pure swing idiom...
...surely, but today it is firmly founded on common sense. It is now making the advances to the colleges, carefully tending its preserves. Mr. Stocking doesn't have any Senatorial togas in his suitcase for distribution to likely men, but he represents the leadership of an enlightened and smooth-working bureaucracy. His work keeps alive the spirit of reform that burst forth so enthusiastically after the Civil War, a spirit that should never be allowed...
...second work on the program is from the colorful pre-war period. Florent Schmitt's Lied and Scherzo has undergone two transformations since its original conception as a double wind quintet. The composer transcribed it both for piano and violoncello and for piano and horn. It is in the latter arrangement that it will be played tonight with Willem Valkenier of the Boston Symphony as hornist. A quartet composed of Mr. Glazer, Mr. Lauga, Mr. Chardon, and Mr. Schoettle will close the program with the first Boston performance of Paul Hindemith's new Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, and Piano...
Many students complain that the use of tutoring schools does not make the work any easier and that they usually spend the same amount of time studying tutoring notes after taking dictation for several days...
...Having taken one review in the early part of the year I can say that the tutoring school did raise my mark, however, I found that this was absolutely unnecessary. I was able with very little trouble, to do the work by myself if I studied," one student commented...