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Brown's disciplined offense, which moved the ball to its two top scorers, Russ Tyler and Arnle Berman, slowed the game down and narrowed the Harvard advantage to 41-37 at the half...
...Berman's thesis, The Evolution of Tonal Thinking in the Works of Claude Debussy, was completed in 1965, and he was awarded his Ph.D. that June. He feels that "Debussy was the final rupture from classical tonal thinking, although this break was prefigured and prepared by nineteenth century practice as far back as Beethoven. Wagner didn't make it the way Debussy did. While the concise structures of eighteenth century tonality seem almost irrelevant to the Wagnerian rhetoric, Wagner still relies on the concept of smooth progressions. Debussy's progressions are classical period. Nevertheless, Debussy does not deny tonality...
...Berman left Harvard to teach at Eartham College in Richmond, Indiana. He left Eartham in 1966 and went to New York where he taught part-time at Hunter College while working intensively at the piano. In the fall of 1967 he came back to Harvard where he continues teaching and performing...
...Harvard's most eligible bachelor faculty members and attractive to many female undergraduates, Berman is extremely popular with students. He has a sincere commitment to teaching and seems to want to share his love for music with everyone, frequently moving to a piano where he allows his fingers to express his emotion for particular pieces of music...
Asked why he thinks performing Chopin is relevant today, Mr. Berman responded, "I have a problem in that respect. Chopin's music speaks to me very deeply and I sincerely believe it can speak to others in the same way. Perhaps the proof is in the fact that people are still going to concerts in which his music figures prominently. Chopin seems to be one of the few composers whose works can satisfactorily make up an entire piano program. Naturally I am aware of the criticism of some of the criticism of some of the cognoscenti who find Chopin...