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This year's schedule includes an interesting combination of classical and contemporary works, aided in part by a Rockfeller Foundation grant for the preparation of contemporary music. Sunday's concert, with Alexander Schncider conducting, consists of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, a Corelli Concerto Grosso, and the Mozart G Minor Symphony, K. 183. Later concerts will include Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie, Stravinksy's Concerto for Strings, Elliot Carter's The Minotaur, and Haydn's Oxford Symphony, all of them extremely interesting pieces...
Stewart's father ran a small garage near Dumbarton, and his mother was a lively lady who liked to roam the moors in modified sports cars. After her first son's ill-starred attempts at a racing career, though, she had no intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships...
Thatcher, the retiring Director, went to Dumbarton Oaks from the Fogg Art Museum...
Tyler has had a long association with Dumbarton Oaks. He was a Fellow at the Research Center from 1956 to 1960, and a member of the Administrative Committee from...
William R. Tyler, currently Ambassador to the Netherlands, has been named director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C.--Harvard's center for study in Byzantine and medieval...