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...example of this, Zipf was the director of German A, the elementary German course, while he gave courses last year in the Social Relations department. This fall, he planned to devote himself to research under a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation...
...practiced that. At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music...
Sixteen years later the picture was reversed and Thompson was teaching Leonard Bernstein, Lucas Foss and others at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He went to run the Curtis after teaching at Wellesley and California, several trips to Europe on Guggenheim fellowships, and a two year tour of thirty American colleges gathering music for a book, "College Music...
...visitors were not taking 37-year-old Composer Dello Joio entirely on faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
Edward Edom Zukoski '50 of Birmingham, Alabama, and Kirkland House yesterday won a Guggenheim Fellowship at California Institute of Technology...