Word: classicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet of the Harvard composer was played in Paine Hall a week...
Ballet supremacy teetered between France and Italy until Russia raised it to its peak. Peter the Great imported Western dances. Catherine did more, and so did her mad son Paul. Thereafter a national ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...
...well-known British classicist, Herbert Jennings Rose, since 1927 Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, will be visiting lecturer on Latin during the first half-year. Following education at McGill and Oxford, Professor Rose was a Fellow and Lecturer of Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-11, and Associate Professor of Classics at McGill, 1911-15. After service in the army, 1915-19, he was appointed Professor of Latin at the University College of Wales, a position which he held until 1927. He is the author of numerous works on ancient classical cultures and mythology...
...romantic paradox" of Byron through an analysis of his poems. Byron, Mr. Calvert holds, did not at one time depend upon the school of Pope and at another skip blithely to the romantic manner. The critic presents a consistent Byron, a man who contained in himself elements of both classicist and romanticist, at all times sincere; and not spasmodically, but progressively ridding himself of the superficial aspects of each until he reached his height in "Don Juan...
...Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value, without requiring the artificial support of requirements. If the present rules did force uninterested students to gain a perfunctory knowledge of a classical language, their value would be doubtful; since they do not accomplish even this, they are indefensible...