Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warm sound and Romantic lyricism" of Alan Summers' rendition of the Tchaikovsky First Concerto can be heard on three out of four recordings of the piece. But the Harvard musical world, when it hears this concerto played with the HRO, should expect an originality and thoughtfulness of interpretation and a technical mastery that Mr. Summers did not display...
...First Concerto as "superficial." In actuality, it was the performance I found myself listening most carefully to in order to pick out the subtle, sometimes eccentric, nuances and the intelligent ideas about the musical nature of the piece. Surely this sort of original music-making most deserves to be heard with...
...second major criticism, heard less around colleges, is directed at the system of student deferments. The inequity of deferring those whose family background and financial status have led to their college attendance has been pointed out by groups as disparate as U.S. Senators and black militants. The result of these deferments is historically interesting: upper and middle-class males have managed to avoid military service altogether (until recently), while the lower classes provided almost all the regular soldiers. By-passing students is, of course, said to be in the national interest, but many contemporary critics have viewed the procedure primarily...
...other two contestants presented a difficult choice. Seth Carlin is the most virtuosic pianist I have heard at Harvard. His performance of the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto displayed a near-perfect technical mastery of that demanding score. The runs and complicated accompaniment figures came through clearly without covering the melodic line. Carlin also demonstrated rhythmic control and power that put his playing on a professional level...
...were also puzzled by the scholars' "feeling that the moderate segment of the academic community must now be heard, lest other voices be mistaken for the majority sentiment." The implication--that those who are deeply dissatisfied with American policies in Asia are only a minority--is clearly untrue, at least in this part of the academic community; to prove it untrue was precisely the purpose of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam. We find it ironic that Professor Reischauer should be endorsing such statements in one place while attempting to disprove them in another. Besides, even if the contention were...