Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...socially conscious Mr. Auburn Street study group joined the united front against the Saltonstall edict, with the announcement that the Communist Party Chief would be asked to speak briefly from the steps of the Lampoon building at 4 o'clock today...
...pointed out that the group was formed seven years ago by a number of University students interested in learning more about dialectical materialism and wishing to use it as an "academic tool". As has been done all during its history, the Society today, with its 35 members, is run primarily for purposes of study...
...course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even the composers who adopted the starkest writing of the post-war period seem to have modified their attitude recently...
This latter group, disgusted by excesses of emotionalism and structural looseness, made a vigorous attempt to clarify their writing and restore classical formal principles. They threw out or slighted soft, luscious sound combinations and meandering formal styles which predominated in the music to which they objected. Now a gracious, less rigid type of writing seems to be coming back, perhaps because composers feel themselves on safe ground formally and not apt to fall into the excesses against which they reacted...
Three weeks ago Italy intended to ship the art treasures she had shown at the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition directly home (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week Italy changed her mind. Husky, enthusiastic Director Daniel Catton Rich of the Chicago Art Institute announced that the entire group would be shown there for two months beginning Nov. 17. Chicago's art lovers had worked on Chicago's Italian-Americans, who worked on grey-mustached Prince Ascanio Colonna, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who worked on his Government...