Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone has not been so unaware of the coming of the great composer. A few weeks later, one of his students appeared in class with a movie camera and proceeded to film the lecture. There is a reason for such mechanized awe. Aside from his fame as a composer, Hindemith is probably the most gifted of music teachers, and it was indeed a coup when the creator of "Mathis der Maler" took a leave from Yale to teach and give the Norton lectures here...
...want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
...great theorist himself, he is no advocate of uninterrupted theorizing, but believes that teachers and students should refresh themselves constantly in the practical aspects of music. Already in his course, he is forming a chorus which will start rehearsals for a concert of thirteenth and fourteenth century music in March...
...elected group. We felt the Council was strengthened by being able to draft capable men to serve on it, most of whom would never have sought or achieved elective office. I think it fair and realistic to say that many of the talented men at Harvard haven't any great interest in student politics. To say they should have, and organize the Council as if they did, is to beg the issue; and that is what the present Constitution does...
...Whiffenpoofs of 1950 are great. For about 15 minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...