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Other lettermen expected to be strong contributers this season are Captain Marty Chalfie, John Bragg, and Buzz Cummins, all seniors. Chalfie performs in the butterfly, while Bragg is a freestyler and Cummins is a breaststroker. Bob Hughes, a senior, and juniors Terry Flannigan and Eric Hanson also lettered on last year's team...
...thinking man's quarterback who steered the U.C.L.A. Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory in 1966, himself to a Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding collegiate football player last year and a reported $200,000 three-year contract with the Washington Redskins; and Kathy Hanson, 21, his college sweetheart; in Alhambra, Calif...
...Howard Hanson is a musical conservative who has probably done more than any other American composer to promote new and experimental music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...Hanson was content to make the case for conservatism in his own work. In keeping with his belief that the simple major chord "is to music what such words as God and love are to language," he stayed mostly within the bounds of traditional harmony, building up solid forms that were infused with ruddy Nordic vigor and romantic lyricism. Last week, conducting the New York Philharmonic in the world première of his Sixth Symphony at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Hanson, 71, made his case again...
...minute symphony, somewhat more linear and contrapuntal in texture than Hanson's earlier compositions, is based almost entirely on a short motif that is stated at the outset like a question. In the first movement, the probing woodwinds turn it over and over with melancholy reflectiveness, then pass it on in the following five movements to mocking, impatient percussion, urgently flowing strings and declamatory brass. In the end, after it has been explored, expanded, inverted and torn apart, the motif is reassembled not as a question but as an answer, and all the various strands of Hanson...