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Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Genius | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Professor J. J. Haffner, and H. B. Warner, instructor in freehand drawing, will go abroad to continue painting, while H. A. Frost '05 instructor in architecture, will be in charge of a students' trip in England in which the study of architecture will be the main interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN MEN TO CARRY ON RESEARCH WORK ABROAD | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

This year, in addition to the work of Professor J. J. Haffner and J. B. Conant '13, and H. D. Murphy and H. B. Warren, there has been added a group of oils and water colors by A. L. Ripley, who joined the staff this year to instruct in the life class and in water color sketching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

Among the many divers objects on exhibition, there are oil paintings by Mr. Murphy, and water colors by Professor Haffner and Mr. Warren. The subjects of the paintings range from architectural sketches to landscapes. The landscapes range from Mediterranean and Caribbean subjects to canvases representing the wintry landscapes of the North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

Chairman, R. T. Bellows; Professor J. J. Haffner, and Professor J. F. Humphreys, of the Harvard Architectural School; Professor Jacque Carlu, and Professor H. W. Gardner, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and W. G. Perry, and J. F. Clapp, of the Boston Architectural Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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