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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft nor an art--it's a pastime. A bit of display, a large dose of arrogance as well as a helping of pure delight in making sound out of a printed page: these are the ingredients in the Harvard musical loaf. There are those who would rather eat cake, but in any case there is little danger of starvation

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Music at Harvard: Neither Craft nor Art; It Combines Display, Arrogance, Delight | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...prose style all too reminiscent of the newspaper he satirizes. And the satire itself is nowhere near the first rank of press spoofery, which is occupied alone by Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Scoop! The Whole Truth can only be taken as a broad burlesque of pat-a-cake editors, cream-puff reporters, puff-piece journalists-crumb-bums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front Page | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Juvenal and Horace efforts in Near the Ocean now show Lowell as the proper envy of every translator in English: he has been able to have his cake and eat it. By this I mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded with respect of Lowell. Calling the poems "Translations" in the introductory more, and distinguishing among them the various degrees of freedom employed, he has managed to combine close fidelity to the literal text with tonal fidelity in an overwhelming percentage of lines and stanzas. And he has managed this working primarily...

Author: By Carroll Moulton, | Title: ROMAN RUINS IN AMERICA | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Presence Divine (1944), scored for soprano chorus, strings and a clattering assortment of percussion, celebrates God's omnipresence by mixing swatches of Gregorian chant with Hindu rhythms and the unearthly quavering of the Ondes Martenot (an electronic wave generator). The 77-minute Turangalila Symphony (1948), a thick layer cake of orchestral textures, is part of Messiaen's treatment of the Tristan legend, which he considers "the greatest myth of human love." Chrono-chromie (1960) echoes the sounds of nature in a complex tone poem, climaxed by an ear-ringing passage in which 18 solo strings each play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Backward Revolutionary | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Thanks for the cake. I appreciated the clippings, although of course Stanford's score [losing to Southern California 21-7] upset me. Oh well, maybe next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: I Care | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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