Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Composer Harris' Mass was finally performed-but not at St. Pat's. Music lovers trekked uptown to Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel to hear the Princeton Chapel Choir sing it. Composer Harris had cluttered up the program with his usual pious phrases about American music ("All the materials have been extracted from prototypes of American folk songs"). Some of the new Mass sounded more like monkish Plainsong. But there was plenty of power, freshness and vigor, and surprisingly little of Harris' usual repetitiousness...
...again during a recent abortive renaissance, many critics of the College made the point that the "intellectual brothels" were teaching students how to learn who had been either unwilling or unable to acquire that ability before. The simple process of knowing how to read a book or hear a lecture so that one can understand it and then repeat its contents has not been successfully achieved by every Harvard graduate...
...Philadelphia Harvard Club put out the old doormat last weekend, and over 1000 members of the Associated Harvard Clubs shuffled across it to observe the annual meeting and hear a full cycle of speeches starting Friday morning and ending Saturday evening at the annual banquet...
...Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
...were no more than a mere thriller, it would be quibbling to point out that a few patches are hard to swallow. One agent manages to decode a message while sitting in the back seat of a moving auto, at night. After betraying his government, Gouzenko seems astonished to hear what will happen to his family and his wife's (Gene Tierney), although he has lived in Soviet Russia most of his life, and is a seasoned professional agent. His reasons for changing sides are also rather thinly explored ; and some of the top spies are such blatant fiends...