Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vary rarely indeed does one find a young composer writing almost exclusively in contrapuntal texture. Those who don't master it early usually never master it at all, as Gluck, Schubert and Schumann discovered. So one can only applaud Austin's approach, especially since this Fugue turned out to be much more than an academic exercise. Austin showed a definite flair for orchestration; the sound was clear and the climaxes well spaced. If the sonorities and harmonies were often reminiscent of his teacher, Roy Harris, no matter; this is as it should be in a composer's formative years...
...detect a note of gentle satire. Surely he does not believe that Soviet farms exceeded their quotas, "in some instances by as much as 303 per cent." He seems rather to be pointing out the differential between Communist propaganda and the hard facts of life. In this we applaud him, but we do not think that the exaggerations of the Soviet embassy excuses the well fed from feeding starving people. David L. Lively '58, Thomas W. Burrows '57, and John R. Butcher '57 for the Harvard...
...England to see his act. They stood on their chairs, stomping and cheering. Long after the clown himself had shuffled off, wiping a tear from his dead-white face with a floppy sleeve, the cheers ran on, until at last a loudspeaker blared: "Please, ladies and gentlemen, do not applaud any longer. Grock is not coming back. Grock is never coming back...
...browsing through the Crimson today we discovered Mr. Goldman's and Mr. Kennedy's delightful suggestion that each boy invite two girls to the House dances. We would like to be the first to applaud this gracious idea and if it is not too rash, to accept their kind invitation...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...