Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Seminar is a privately supported program, organized under Professor William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School, and Henry A. Kissinger, Executive Director of the Seminar. The participants are selected by means of applications and personal interviews, and with the help of international selection boards. Most of them do not have sufficient time or opportunity to visit the States for a longer period of time, but are vitally interested in gaining a wider perspective through contacts with colleagues from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America...
...opening session will take place tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School, will preside over the Convocation. Speakers will be Matthew Page Gaffney, Visiting Professor of Education, and Dana M. Cotton, associate director of the Summer School...
...Reader Hulburd is right-and there is more. Two other Roosevelt christenings in the White House: Elliott Jr. (1937) and Franklin...
...Bela Bartok. They get few performances because a) they write few works, b) they are constitutionally unsuited to the rigors of promoting performances, c) their music sounds forbiddingly difficult, and is twice as difficult to play. A member of this elite in good standing is Manhattan's Elliott Cook Carter,* who, at 47, is just coming into his own: a recording of his String Quartet by the Walden Quartet is being released (by Columbia) in June; another of a suite from the music for his ballet The Minotaur, played by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra...
Chamber music has been Elliott Carter's most successful field so far. He tends to mistrust the musical stage because it depends on so many people (but he yet may write an opera), and his orchestral works take too many rehearsals to be much performed. Nevertheless, he has no inclination to write for quick success. As the only son of a well-to-do Manhattan lace importer, he inherited an income, and, in addition, he has made a pleasant discovery: "The music I like to write turns out to be the most popular anyway...