Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard S. Dole G.Ed., has recently decided to become a missionary in Africa and teach at American mission schools in Angola, Portuguese, West Africa...
...Cummings '15, prominent American poet, will read his poems, and make certain incidental remarks this Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Cummings is the author of Xaipe, The Enormous Room, and many other works...
...American choral composers today, Professor Randall Thompson '20 certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include...
...entire career. His father, a New Englander, taught at private schools, and Thompson himself was a professor at Wellesley, the University of California, the University of Virginia, and Princeton before being appointed to the faculty here. In 1935, after three years of research sponsored by the Association of American Colleges, he published an important study on musical education entitled College Music...
...Thompson's patrons was Serge Koussevitsky who, for so many modern American composers, was a source of both income and inspiration. Koussevitsky, Thompson recalls, "had a genius for challenging you into writing a work. It was at his insistance that I composed, on extremely short notice, a chorus for all the students at Tanglewood to sing at the festival's dedication in 1940. He made it sound like the most important commission ever offered a composer...