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While the big orchestras thundered at night in Usher Hall, hundreds were braving the morning chill in dingy Freemasons' Hall to hear, at 11 a.m. each day, music played by a natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...
Medicine v. Mozart. U.S. music fans have heard Boyd Neel's orchestra only on records, if at all. Last year his 21-piece string group crossed the U.S. en route to Australia, but they flew across the U.S. in silence on a world tour, with their instruments in bond...
...Boyd Neel wanted to be a concert pianist, but gave up after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...
Princeton's library, in the words of its librarian, Julian P. Boyd, is "Gothic on the outside and modernistic on the in side." To Modern Architect William Lescaze that seemed rather like dressing a professor in a suit of armor. Last week he wrote the New York Times an angry letter about...
...Boyd considered using conveyor belts and moving vans, decided instead to rely on raw Princeton manpower. He hired 35 undergraduates for $1 an hour, eight hours a day. For ten weeks, in sunshine or showers, they would push book trucks down a covered ramp, connecting the old and new buildings...