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Your Nov. 14 review of Retreat from Learning struck a responsive chord in a teacher of many years' experience. Teachers are a dedicated group. The older generation of teachers were so completely cowed by bureaucracy and politics that freedom of speech was just a pat phrase. Conditions have changed only to grant that freedom to pupils. The public asks so frequently, "Why don't teachers do something about all this delinquency?" They should read how Author Joan Dunn shows up the limitations of teachers' authority...
Boston Jazz Tunes begin with a theme, setting a chord pattern which underlies the melodic line. Then the soloists take off, basing their improvisations on this pattern while piano, drums and bass create the rhythmic tension...
...jingles for its roadside signs. The best apple pie in the U.S. is served at the Cottage Inn in Cripple Creek, Colo. The whistles of railroad trains speeding across the American prairies are in the key of C, and are the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. These and other minutiae are among the many observations and conclusions of Mr. and Mrs. John David Gill, in the course of leisurely strolls around the U.S. and Canada. By this month the Gills, a Philadelphia couple, had been in pursuit of their favorite pastime-walking hand in hand through...
...when the personalities are beyond memory. One reason: musical battle lines were clearly drawn in Shaw's day. He could be simply for or against Wagner (he was for) and romantic Italian opera (against, at least until Verdi's later works); musical forms were firm, and a chord was a chord. It made things easier for him than for today's critic, who has precious little new music to discuss, less that is controversial...
...rest of the concert will consist of tune-ringing in which each ringer manipulates several bells to produce piano-chord effects. Any number of individuals may participate...