Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cesar Lombardi Barber '35, of Bethesda, Maryland, has been awarded the History and Literature Prize at Harvard College, given annually to the member of the Junior class concentrating in the field of History and Literature who shows the greatest promise. Barber is an editor of the Harvard Advocate...
...long before the evil midnight when a company of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen murdered their country's most famed character, Augusto Cesar Sandino (TIME, March 5), Sandino had said: "There are now three powers in Nicaragua: President Sacasa, the Guardia and myself." Though he was dead Sandino was last week still one of Nicaragua's three powers, but the order of importance had changed...
...book consists largely of examples drawn from many composers from Bach to Cesar Franck. These examples are chosen with a keen sense of the aptness in illustrating a given point. They are all interesting in themselves as music and bear witness to Professor Piston's wide and discriminating knowledge of musical literature. The analytical comment is brief but always keen, lucid and consistent with the principles laid down at the beginning. Among the examples there are not only many short excerpts but ten complete compositions showing the relation of chords to an entire piece...
...best recordings in recent months is that of Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques", recorded by Walter Gieseking and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia). The full sonority and subtlety of the piano have been reproduced with amazing fidelity. The playing of Gieseking is, needless to say, of the highest order, to state it conventionally. The composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last...
Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua...