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Second choice, on recent form, was the C. V. Whitney entry of Mameluke and Counterpoint, at 6-1. Third choice (13-2) was Calumet Farm's Plain Ben Jones, five-time-winning Derby trainer, who said in the traditional Jones manner that he really hadn't planned to start "little old" Fanfare against those "big, powerful Derby horses...
...Tillman Merritt, head of the department runs the field efficiently and has quelled all internal disagreement. Administrative work limits his classroom time, but he will teach 152. Model Counterpoint, next year. His classes are partly redeemed from boredom by an outrageous and delightful use of metaphor...
Many a listener, nerves frayed by the dissonances and the jerky jazzy rhythms he had just heard, sourly agreed. But time has proved audience and conductor wrong. Nobody has ever accused Aaron Copland of murder, even murder of harmony and counterpoint, and this week he reached his soth birthday the most-played and most-honored of living U.S.-born composers. From all over the world, his colleagues were letting him know...
This is his forty-first year of teaching in the University. In fact, except for one year of study abroad, Davison has been here since he entered as a freshman in 1902, the fall after his graduation from Boston Latin School. He started out teaching harmony and counterpoint; one year later he was appointed University Organist and Choirmaster, a post he held for the next 30 years...
Antonio Vivaldi, the red-bearded master of counterpoint who was known in his native Venice as "Il prete rosso" (The red priest), composed some 40 operas and 400 concerti grossi. Some of them fascinated his contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach, so much that Bach made numerous Vivaldi transcriptions. This month, on the heels of the worldwide Bach anniversary celebrations, Italy's Cetra-Soria Co. has put the case for its countryman in two handsome LP albums. The first includes the Piano Concerto in B Minor, rearranged from Bach's transcription, the Concerto Grosso in D Minor...