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Reported the Daily Herald critic: "I went skeptical, like most of the audience, I fancy, but after listening to a programme of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bloch and Enesco, I was convinced that Adler is a very considerable artist and that in his hands the harmonica can indeed be made to do almost anything-including playing chords and imitating a plucked string...
...Herbert Bloch was raised to the rank of associate professor of Greek and Latin, while Louis Hartz '40 and David B. Truman became assistant professors of Government in the other three elevations...
Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, Bloch studied at the Universities of Berlin and Rome. He engaged in archeological field work near Rome before coming to this country in 1939 to join the Department of the Classics...
...Roger Sessions was born 50 years ago, Aaron Copland was born four years later. In 1928 the two composers sponsored a Copland-Sessions concert series for contemporary music. During the past two years, Sessions has taught composition at the University of California along with his onetime teacher, Composer Ernest Bloch, and often visits France's Darius Milhaud, who teaches at nearby Mills College. In this stimulating atmosphere he has half-finished a third symphony and has begun a four-act opera called Montezuma. He started the Roosevelt symphony in 1944 at Princeton, was on the third movement (adagio) when...
...years ago Shopkeeper Bloch had put up a sign: "This firm has closed its doors because it cannot get goods at proper prices. Rather than go to the black market, we retire temporarily from business." Just before Christmas he put up a new sign: "We open Jan. 2. All goods at prewar prices until we are sold out. . . . Please buy as little as you can-think of others...