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...Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvorak possess an unerring inner discrimination for the wind timbres and persuasion, while many other composers simply pay obligatory homage to the noisemakers with passages of stark, inhumane cacophony for the brass, or limpid, precious colorings for the woodwind. With such works as Soldat, Octet, Dumbarton Oaks, and Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Stravinsky is definitely a member of the former group. L'Histoire du Soldat (1918), a suite of elegant miniatures for seven players, was given a generally excellent reading under the direction of student conductor David Archibald. Mr. Archibald, although somewhat inhibited technically, maintained metrical...
Ernest Kitzinger, a leading art historian at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., has been named the first A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard...
While teaching and researching in fine arts at Harvard next year, Kitzinger -- who specializes in Byzantine and early medieval art -- will continue on the faculty of Dumbarton Oaks where he was Director of Studies from 1955 to 1966. He is doing research this year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...Many writers are far, far more relevant than Scripture" to contemporary man, says the Rev. Richard McFarland of Washington's Dumbarton Methodist Church. Accordingly, he is as likely to use a passage from Camus or Albee as a parable to bring home to his congregation an aspect of God's message. Well aware that pulpit time is dropout time for many churchgoers, more and more ministers are not only turning to secular sources as an inspiration for sermons but are trying more dramatic ways to vary the format of their preaching...
...letters were drafted by a 16-member executive committee, which began meeting in small groups yesterday afternoon at Dumbarton College in Washington and continued past 5 a.m. this morning...