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WALTER PISTON '24 stood up Friday and received an ovation for his Symphony No. 6 (1955), performed in honor of his 80th birthday. Written to celebrate the 75th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the symphony bridges the gap between two groups of modern composers: the conservatives like Copland, MacDowell and Gershwin on one side, and the adventurers like Stravinsky, Ives and Cage on the other. Piston's music contains smatterings of new tonal techniques, and his rhythmic and melodic lines are original, not derived from folktunes, but he's interested above all in restoring order and clarity to music...
...Radcliffe's 75th anniversary in 1966, she received the Founder's Award. It stated: "Superb master of English prose, wise teacher, witty and gentle friend in whose presence either sensed their breadth and worth, Radcliffe is honored to acknowledge her contributions to its academic life...
Amateur Painter. This week, on the 75th anniversary of Gershwin's birth, the music, record and publishing worlds are paying tribute to that originality, and to the man behind it. Among the new LPs, the most irresistible is a Nonesuch release on which William Bolcom plays Gershwin's piano pieces, including the composer's variations on songs like Clap Yo'Hands, S'Wonderful and, of course, Swanee. An exhibition at Manhattan's Hallmark Gallery shows Gershwin to have been versatile enough to double as a gifted amateur painter and caricaturist, if somewhat prone...
Screening Room. On the 75th birthday of acclaimed Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, Harvard professor Vladimir Petric, a noted expert on Eisenstein's films, discusses clips from "Ivan the Terrible," "Alexander Nevsky," "October," "General Line," and "Strike." CH. 5. 1:05 a.m. Color...
CARPENTER CENTER. Fifteen Signs by Willem Sandberg, in honor of the artist's 75th birthday, until Feb. 15. Portraits photos and drawings by students in Visual and Environmental Studies 40 and 181a through the end of February. Daily...