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...opera when he was 13, became a Harvard freshman at 14 and a composition student of Horatio Parker at Yale when he was 18. He began to break free from tradition in 1921, when he became an instructor in theory at the Cleveland Institute, where he worked under Ernest Bloch. Since then, Composer Sessions, now teaching at Princeton, has sent forth from his classroom some of the most promising names in U.S. music-Leon Kirchner, David Diamond, Andrew Imbrie, Milton Babbitt...
...Evening Concert--Beethoven-King Stephen Overture; Kirchner-Trio; Tchaikovsky-Symphony No. 4; Bach-Partita No. 2 for Unacc. Violin; Bloch-Concerto Grosso...
...around his head, he dazzled his listeners with a performance full of flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal Shem), shaping an interpretation that was sweet but not sugary, both poignant and filled with an old world charm...
Yale has lost only once, a 3-0 decision to Springfield, the probable New England champs. The Bulldogs have been sensational in Ivy play, outscoring their opponents, 15 to 1. Their defense, led by halfback George Seeley and goalie Andy Bloch, is nearly impenetrable. Against a Cornell team that the Crimson edged, 2 to 1, the Elis notched an 8-1 triumph, giving some indication of their explosive offense...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...