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While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...
...generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
...concert, which is open to the public, will include selections by Bach, Debussy, Ravel, and Beethoven...
...first three of Bach's six solo suites for violoncello will be performed at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater by Iwam d'Archambeau, for many years the 'collist with the Stradivarius String Quartet. In a second concert on Wednesday, November 23, d'Archambeau will play the remaining three of Bach's violoncello suites...