Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also entered are five Springfield swimmers, five from Delaware, three from Boston University and Buffalo, two from North Carolina State, and one each from Brooklyn, Connecticut, Duke, Lehigh, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tufts, Union, and Wesleyan...
...contributed good looks and . . . innate good tastes in the arts. Education at Groton and Harvard had followed, after which there had been years of hard work. In 1920, aged 36, he had married a New Hampshire girl who loved horses and dogs ... so he had bought some land in Connecticut and there they had spent much of each year . . . In 1925 she had died in an influenza epidemic, leaving a boy of three named Norris . . . During school holidays, when Norris was at home, he sometimes took the boy to places like the Metropolitan Museum and the Statue of Liberty...
Other newly-elected officers include Janet McNeill '53 of Hartford, Connecticut and Bertram Hall, treasurer; Adele Gilmore '53 of Quincy and Henry House, sub-treasurer; and Nancy Fisher '54 of Washington, D.C. and Moors Hall, sophomore member...
...Second, Ives had set out to express "the musical feelings of the Connecticut country around here in the 1890s the music of the country folk." "To one of his rare visitors he explained that "there's not much to say about the symphony . . . It is full of the tunes they sang and played then." A composer who experimented with polytonality (writing in two or more keys simultaneously) before Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded to set his Yankee tunes "in counter point with some Bach tunes," as "a sort of bad joke." Joke...
...Herald -Tribune's Virgil Thomson judged it "unquestionably an authentic work of art " Altogether, the Second is much easier going than the sometimes bewildering third. It opens with a serene song in the strings, reminiscent of the green beauty of the Connecticut countryside. In the slow third movement come the "Bach tunes" in full brass, while the strings are skittering at something else. Actually, the chorales are typically Ivesian abstractions; if Ives, a kind of John Marin of music, quotes from anything, it is that old 19th Century standard, the Long Green Organ Book. If there...