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...ideal he continually articulated and stove to achieve was that even without education all men can prefer good music to bad. He said in a discussion of his earliest work, The Concord Song Book: "The place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty intersect. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best --that we prefer our second choice to our first.... The real way to grow the power...
...devote his full time to this work. Although he believed that mixed voices were infinitely preferable to a men's chorus, he nonetheless "tortured" the means "to justify the end" and made over 300 arrangements for men's voices that gave them access to a much wider repertoire. His "Concord Series" song books have had unparalleled usage in schools and homes both here and abroad. The number of distinguished musicians who trained at Harvard and thus felt his influence he once described as "almost embarrassing...
...engaged in prison instruction for six years, and currently reaches one tenth of the state's 200 prisoners. Three dozen students are working as teachers this winter, and classes range from three to fifteen pupils. Instruction is in four of the state's seven prisons, at Norfolk, Walpole, Concord, and Framingham...
...laconic Sullivan still owns and pays taxes on forty acres of land under water in front of M.I.T. Technically, he is in the "renovating business," which might be called unilateral urban renewal. From his small, brick-front office up Concord Street, he promotes the development of open and run-down areas and holds forth against what he regards as the forces of tenacious conservatism, led by Harvard, a propertied dog in the manger...
...naturedly probing drifts in search of their cars. Yet each day, a mountain of precious snow melts away. And yesterday, in one of the most grotesque displays of municipal extravagance since the last snow storm, the City of Camridgbe began its wasteful and shocking dumping of snow in the Concord Avenue Dump...