Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of knowledge he first began storing up when, at 13, an attack of infantile paralysis set him haunting the galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in a wheelchair. Convinced that he wanted to become a museum man, Walker went to Harvard ('30), breezed through the Fogg Museum training course summa cum laude, found time on the side to found (with Balletomane Lincoln Kirstein and Esthete Edward M. M. Warburg) the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art (profaned by other Harvard-men as the Society for Contemptuous Art) and contribute to Kirstein's then fashionable, upperbrow Hound...
Leonard Opdycke '17, Department Chairman, and John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, will represent the Fine Arts faculty before the Committee, headed by Harrison Tweed '07. Plans for the meeting call for discussion of possible modifications in the recommendations of the recent Visual Arts Report...
...program of music by Monteverdi, including Il Ballo Dello Ingrate, and several shorter pieces, was given Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Fogg Museum. The depth and versatility of the Renaissance master was displayed in music covering a wide stylistic and emotional range, varying from poignancy, to austerity, to an ornate light-heartedness...
...bearing. These imperfections, however, were outweighed by the general excellence of the production: the competent singing, the fine instrumental support, and the brilliant costumery, designed by Anne Hollander--all under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork of the Fogg Courtyard blended well with the archaic twang of the harpsichords, the delicate timbre of the lutes, and the Renaissance line of Monteverdi's melody--austere, exuberant, or poignant...
These groups not only use Sanders and Fogg Court to excellent advantage, but have taken over the House Dining Halls and antiquated Agassiz Theatre to produce drama that is not only exciting but also of an unusually high quality. Last weekend for instance, four different College groups put on shows of almost equal artistic merit, varying from the definitely "off-beat" Sartre to the imposing presentation of Sophocles in the original Greek...