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When his mind told him to go back to Harvard nearly 50 years ago, he threw himself into the study of the piano and developed an enduring passion for Bach. For years afterward he would relax by playing the partitas. He found himself fascinated by such scholars as the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian emigre who saw ominous parallels between Nazism and Soviet Communism. Nitze shared that lesson with his mentor, Dillon, Read's president James Forrestal, who later became the nation's first -- and most obsessively anti- Communist -- Secretary of Defense. Forrestal brought Nitze to Washington to work...
...great early composers. Bach. Telemann. Scarlatti. Monteverdi. Pachelbel...
...Paine Hall, will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Dutch War of Independence with a program called "Music from the Netherlands." The program will pay tribute to Dutch and Flemish composers of the Renaissance, who Tokuno describes as a primary influence on "what we call modern music, starting with Bach. [The Dutch school] became a longstanding and powerful tradition that influenced every country in Europe...
...Weiner did defer coming to Harvard for a year to study guitar at the Paris Conservatory. Much of the historical information comes from MMV's faculty advisers, Mason Professor of Music and Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff and Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone. Wolff is an expert on Bach and German baroque music, while Boone is an expert on music of the Renaissance. Between them, their knowledge spans the entire period of MMV's interest...
...California-born Partch, who died in 1974, was a noteworthy iconoclast. Dissatisfied with the "tempered" method of tuning in use since the time of Bach, Partch sought a purer, just intonation based on the harmonic overtones that resonate naturally when any note is sounded. To make his microtones audible, Partch invented a series of exotic instruments constructed out of such objects as artillery shell casings and Pyrex jars...