Word: bate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...History and Literature Department will ease up on some of its long established requirements and change its main emphasis to "cultural history," Walter J. Bate '39, chairman of the committee on History and Literature, revealed yesterday...
Professor Hugh E. McKinstry will also become Chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences and of the Department of Geology and Geography; Professor J. Curry Street will be the new Chairman of the Department of Physics effective Feb. 1, 1956; and Walter J. Bate '39, associate professor of English, will assume the chairmanship of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature...
...Harvard Hall twins off the same upstairs landing. In 4, Associate Professor Bate criticizes the critics in a half course, English 192. It is a high point in the English Department and a classic in its field...
...first few days of the festival were pretty much alike, consisting mostly of tried and true Cheltenham favorites and a couple of new works. But on the sixth day, Sir John produced the nugget of the festival, Stanley Bate's Third Symphony. From the first soft notes on the bassoons, it was clear that the work was a discovery. Unusual tone colors glittered against each other throughout the first two movements, and the finale sizzled to a fine climax with a shooting, presto subject and a rolling, Beethovian coda that finished with a bang...
Plymouth-born Composer Bate, 40, waited long for last week's success. He wrote his symphony 14 years ago. A top-speed composer, he has written concertos for violin, viola, harpsichord and four for piano, seven ballets, two quartets and lots of other chamber music. A student of Vaughan Williams, he has studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think...