Music on TV and the overlooked value of musical visuals
A critique of television relying on background music for advertising and distraction. The piece argues music’s true visual value lies in its written notation and the simultaneous display of musical processes, not just performers, with a nod to future audio visual cassettes and a brief praise of the Frick Collection as a premier art institution.
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New York
Frick
Henry Clay Frick
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Trumpeter Swan tale review spans Louis and Sam
A review of The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White details Louis the handicapped cygnet who learns to write, earns money, and seeks a trumpet, aided by Sam Beaver. The piece compares White’s work to Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web, noting a blend of humor, moral lessons, and musical ambition.
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Harper & Row
W. G. Rogers
Louis
E. B. White
Sam Beaver
Sam
Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Montana
Bar Nothing
Billings
Serena
Boston
Philadelphia
Felicity
Stuart Little
Charlotte's
Web
White
Swan
Iavestar
Bailiwick
the New Yorker
Summer publications by Doris Lilly and many others
Summer literary slate includes Doris Lilly titles from Cowles and Lim Piao life and writings by Martin Ebon from Stein and Day. In July Winthrop Sargeant memoir In Spite of Myself for Doubleday. August sees Vannevar Bush Pieces of the Action from Morrow. Speer Inside the Third Reich from Macmillan. Frost The Years of Triumph 1915 1938 from Holt Rinehart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Lilly
Cowles
Lim Piao
China
Martin Ebon
Stein and Day
New Yorkers
Winthrop Sargeant
Doubleday
Morrow
Vannevar Bush
Macmillan
Albert Speer
Holt Rinehart
Robert Frost
Lawrance Thompson
Edward Robb Ellis
Coward McCann
Gene Smith
Herbert Hoover
Victoria Holt
England
South Seas
Harper
Santha Rama Raw
John Bechy
Grove Press
Bech
John Updike
Knopf
Mary Stewart
Merlin the
Little Brown
Gore Vidal
Kingsley Amis
Green Man
Harcourt, Brace
Woman named manager of New York Philharmonic
Helen M Thompson becomes manager of the New York Philharmonic as Carlos Moseley rises to the first paid president role. Her background in the League for Regional Orchestra and social work, plus Rockefeller Foundation support, shapes her duties beyond standard duties, including pursuing government financing for services and adapting to changing American orchestral norms.
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Helen M Thompson
New York Philharmonic
Carlos Moseley
Tra League
Rockefeller Foundation
Thompson
Mrs Thompson
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
West Virginia
American Symphony Orchestra League
the Philharmonic
Philharmonic
Lewisohn Stadium
Into Park
Oberlin Music Theatre Announces Summer Repertory
The Oberlin Music Theatre released its summer repertory and opened patron subscriptions. The lineup includes The Pirates of Penzance, The Rake's Progress, The Barber of Seville, Carousel, and other works, with critics praising last season and urging strong patron support.
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Oberlin Music Theatre
Music Theatre
Boris Nelson
Tuleda Blade
Oberlin
Belasco
Tsies
Mehneingonht
Eabert Ara
Mr Seat Eo
Pitth
Musi Deans
Grimms
Qhetar Mill
McCartney Tops Charts Solo With New Record Rise
The Saturday Review notes Paul McCartney ascends to number one with a solo disc titled Austere Grandeur, aided by Linda McCartney and a family-friendly image. It contrasts with the Beatles era and hints at internal rifts among the former band members while highlighting McCartney’s publishing and recording earnings from songs and renditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy Fain
Irving Kahal
William Raskin
McCartnes
McCartney
al Paul
Linda
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Bell Telephone
Firestone
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Sary
Vermeer
Rembrandt
Velasquez
Holbein
el Greco
de la Tour
Edgar Munhall
Viking Press
B. White
By Miles A. Smith
Nancy Milford
Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ezra Pound
Pantheon
Noel Stock
O. Henry
Wiliam S Porter
Richard O'Connor
Doubleau
Onassis
Niarchos
Livanos
Random House
Irving J Sloan
Lippincott
John Bakeless
Dial
W.R. Brock
Adamses
Lees
Roosevelts
Biddles
du Ponts
Edmund Stillman
John Gunther
Genie
Fine Arts
Woman
NY Philharmonic
Alice Taylor
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Adele Prentiss Hughes
Cleveland
The
American Symphony Orches
Orchestras
Oberlin Theatre
HIVE
Beatles
John
Lenon
Brian Epstein
Oll Harners
Annenan
Porthos
Athos
Aramis
Hn Saturday Review
Paul McCartney
Arthas
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