Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining music on the program consisted of items on a smaller scale. John Austin '56 continued his laudable concentration on contrapuntal techniques in his Three Madrigals for flute, violin, 'cello and piano, and Five Fugal Pieces for two violins and viola. These pieces preserved his customary refined, conservative, low-voltage, post-Delius style--except the third of the latter group, which fell back into the style of Austin's teacher, Roy Harris. Even in the Madrigals, the linear emphasis extended to the piano parts, which maintained melodic interest at all times rather than just serving as harmonic background...
...modern composers were featured on the program. John Austin '56 contributed Two Airs that showed his skill in keeping counterpoint under harmonic control. The Airs were short and rather lightweight but they had a lovely lyrical modal style. The other, the String Quartet Op. 50 by Prokofieff, is a somewhat inconsistant piece. There were moments of inspired writing, particularly when the 'cello had the melody up high against bitter chords in the upper strings. The slow last movement, however, seemed out of place and style of the other movements. The work received a fine passionate reading from the Quartet, with...
...AUSTIN Windsor...
Harvard purchased it by subscription in that year. One gathers that students were boarded there for a while, but by the 1880s the alien mass of Austin Hall was crowding it into Kirkland Street from behind and Professor James Bradley Thayer, a latter-day saint of the Law School, was living there. At some now well-hidden date before the turn of the century, Holmes house was torn down, not to make way for Littauer, which didn't inflate the landscape until much later, but presumably because, like its garret's contents, it was slowly going to pieces...
...AUSTIN M. KELLAM Binghamton...