Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poto's credit, he is an excellent accompanist and extremely sympathetic with a soloist. Last night's was Joel Sachs '61, this year's winner of the Pierian Sodality Concerto Contest. In its musical problems, the Fourth Concerto is one of the most difficult in the entire literature. Mr. Sachs was most successful when he did not attempt to do something unusual. His strongest asset is an exceptionally lovely and fluid tone, which was often ravishing in the closing Rondo. His passage-work, particularly in the last movement when it cleared up, sparkled, and the reading was modest, but very...
...study. The Music Department must virtually divide its courses to suit the needs of these groups. The graduates must have courses in bibliography, research, and notation which are of little value to most undergraduates. The concentrators must have courses in harmony and music history which are too advanced or difficult for the general student, too elementary for the prepared graduate. Music 1, formerly required for concentration, is now covered for the concentrator in Music 123 and 124, combination history and analysis courses...
Music 51 is, of necessity, a very difficult and technical course which must supply not only the materials necessary for harmonic analysis, but also a solid technical background for the future composer. There is a large amount of mechanical exercises and memorization; "real" music is used for the most part in an illustrative capacity rather than as an object of study itself. A year of Music 51 is often more than enough to persuade a student against music as a field of concentration...
...station's application for FM channel 288 will be considered after a request by station WKOX for allocation of channel 289 to the Framingham area. This proposed station would make operations on channel 288 extremely difficult for WHRB...
...indicated that the engineers for WKOX are examining other available FM channels. However, the New England area is "saturated" and another channel may be difficult to find. WHRB has not suggested any alternate channel for WKOX in its brief...