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...program was in Harvard's best "radical intellectual" tradition. Of the eight compositions listed only one, the Vadres March of Johannes Hanssen, dated from the nineteenth century. The remaining seven ranged from Ralph Vaughn William's Folk Song Suite, written about 1920, to the just-completed Emblems of Aaron Copland...
James Walker deserves much of the credit for the precision of the Band's performance. Throughout the concert, his conducting was energetic and exact. Even in the most rhythmically aberrant sections of the Creston, Copland, or Hindemith works, he was able not simply to keep the Band together, but to present the various crossrhythms and syncopations with the utmost clarity...
Harvard has run through Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and the late Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
Four programs will be taped each week so Copland will probably not have much free time to spend at the University. "He will be working a 70-hour week with us," David N. Davis, the producer of the series said yesterday. "What he chooses to do with the rest of his time will, of course, be up to him," Davis added...
Each program will consist of a 15 minute lecture by Copland and 15 minutes of musical examples performed by soloists and a large orchestra. The original lectures, which lasted 6 hours without musical illustration, have been drastically condensed for the television series...