Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believer in the inevitable superiority of college graduates, Treasurer Kennedy forthwith appointed his brother, James A. (for Austin) Kennedy, to the $5,780-a-year post of third deputy treasurer. But the Governor's Council unanimously refused to approve brother Jim, a steel heat treater at the Boston Navy Yard who left school...
...British-built, 3,442-cc. Jaguar entered by Briggs Cunningham, who owned last year's winning Osca, 2) a 2,999-cc. Ferrari to be driven by Italy's aging (48) Piero Taruffi and America's Harry Schell and 3) a 2,660-cc. Austin-Healey, handled by British Champion Stirling Moss and Co-Driver Lance Macklin...
...chief novelty of the evening was the premiere of an orchestra Fugue by John Austin, and Eliot House junior. This relatively large-scale work shows continued preoccupation with the problems of counterpoint that he tackled in his smaller Model Canons and Fugal Picces for Three Violins. The result is his most ambitious, yet most personal and communicative piece to date...
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...
...AUSTIN New York City...