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...demonstrate the indebtedness of twentieth-century music to Schoenberg's pioneering efforts, as well as to pay the composer a personal tribute, Blackwood followed the Five Pieces with his own Three Short Fantasies, Op. 16 and John Perkins' Caprice (1963), which Blackwood commissioned when the two composers were colleagues at the University of Chicago. Both works begin with Schoenbergian flurries of pianistic cacophony; both depend for internal variety on the alternaton of different timbres, registers, and pianistic effects; and both are long--perhaps too long for the basically epigrammatic nature of the twelve-tone idiom. Without demeaning the compositions themselves...
...guiding principle of the Harvard Music Department, it is often said, is that music should be seen and not heard. The recital by Easley Blackwood Monday night was one of the department's rare gestures of support to performing music. Composer-pianist Blackwood performed works by Schoenberg, Charles Ives, himself, and Harvard's own John Perkins (of Music 154 fame...
...deranged but enchanting mentality that Author Jackson has chosen this time belongs to Mary Katherine ("Merricat") Blackwood-actual age 18, mental age a precocious twelve. "I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet," she reflects, "and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom." She is a gentle child who promises herself to be kinder to her Uncle Julian. She is already kind enough to Constance and to her enigmatic cat Jonas. But for some reason she is never allowed to touch knives...
...same year, Roy Harris joined la boulangerie. From Harvard, in a later generation, came Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, and Arthur Berger. Elliott Carter, Marc Blitzstein, Bernard Rogers, Roger Goeb, David Diamond, Ross Lee Finney, Howard Swanson, Easley Blackwood--all composed under her tutelage. Among the Europeans she taught were Igor Markevitch, Jean Francaix, Antoni Szalowski, and Darius Milhaud...
...SYLVIA BUMILLER Blackwood...