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...student learns to adapt and meet the unexpected. The quarterback learns this on the football field; the student can learn it in the gallery." As an art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover, since 1933, and head of the prep school's Addison Gallery of American Art since 1940, Bart Hayes has taught two generations of Andover boys how to adapt, and in the process set nationwide precedents in art instruction and appreciation. Says Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. F. Hoving, who attended Andover's archrival Exeter: "Bart Hayes is the best secondary school art teacher...
From Pots to Pop. Andover boys seem to love Bart Hayes's unorthodox approach. One hundred and fifty a year sign up for the course, and 20% of the seniors major in art. Several have made it a lifetime calling, either as museum directors, artists (Painters Cleve Gray and George Tooker), or designers (Expo 67's U.S. Pavilion Display Designer Ivan Chermayeff). But Hayes, the perpetual inquirer, still finds himself wondering about the average boy, "how much has rubbed off on him permanently, how has he reacted over the years...
Aloof on Olympus. If regents are to perform their buffer role effectively, they clearly need to know student and faculty leaders. Not all of them do. "Nobody really has any contact with the board of governors-it's like speaking to the gods on Olympus," complains Bart Mindszenthy, a campus newspaper editor at Wayne State University. Yet California regents are trying hard: they meet monthly with student leaders, sometimes hike with them in the High Sierras. Governors of Central Michigan University stay in student dorms when they meet...
...Language. By melding the sprightly vigor and natural speech rhythms of the folk melodies with traditional harmonies, Kodály and Bartók forged a new, distinctly Hungarian musical language. The works of Bartók, always the more inventive and adventuresome, became increasingly dissonant and experimental. Kodály's music was more a paean to peasant simplicity-edges blunted, the passion sometimes prettified, but always stimulating in its warmth, clarity and soaring lyricism...
...Bartók left Hungary and eventually died in New York City in 1945. His work was neglected during his lifetime, but the compositions-notably his six quartets, the violin concerto and Concerto for Orchestra-are now deservedly regarded as masterworks of the century...