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Commander E. W. Hanson will be on duty with the Harvard unit on board ship. Last year the cruise was 12 instead of 20 days long and only Juniors were eligible to be included on it. Harvard and Yale will each be assigned to a destroyer while Georgia has two boats...
...people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow critics, accepted the Hanson-Stokes opus when the music was scarcely begun...
...Metropolitan planned to put on Merry Mount in 1932 but Composer Hanson had not finished with his music. It was scheduled then for last winter when hard times intervened and it was shelved again. Last week Manager Gatti-Casazza generously permitted the University of Michigan to steal a march on him. The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival. Solemn as Supreme Court judges, University students sat behind a bench backstage to sing the Puritans' choral music. Ann Arbor's festival singers sat on the stage...
...Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought to be a rare Eastern disease; in London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died...
...life. He likes to be an organist because it gives him time to compose, to develop his interest in old ecclesiastical music. He teaches at the American Conservatory of Music, where he put in his own first serious study. Eastern audiences are better acquainted with the music of Howard Hanson. Composer Sowerby's Rochester friend, but discriminating midwesterners regard Sowerby as every bit Hanson's equal, an opinion which many a New Yorker heartily indorsed last week after listening to Prairie...