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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Hill's Concertino on second hearing was perhaps more ingratiating than at its premier two years ago. It succeeds in accomplishing its intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
Your issue of Feb. 12 gives credit to a rainy football game of 1923 for the baptism of "Ducky" Pond, whereas . . . The Hill students of that time know that he bore the name "Duck" when he was helping Hotchkiss beat The Hill some three or four years before...
...then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major; Professor Edward Burlingame Hill's Concertino for the piano and orchestra; the Prelude to the oratorio "Gerontius" by Sir Edward Elgar in memory of the composer who died last week; and Debussy's fascinating La Mer instead of the new symphony by one Gilere. Toscanini will conclude the Beethoven cycle in New York on Sunday...
...Harvard professors will entertain Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian Ambassador to the United States, on Thursday, March 8, before a dinner which will be given for him. Edward Burlingame Hill '94, professor of Music, will be host to Mr. Troyanovsky at lunch; William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and Mrs. Hocking will entertain the visiting diplomat at a tea in the afternoon...
...perhaps forgotten that the superannuated professors have considerably more prestige in the Literary world than he has, and, moreover, that their knowledge of literature and his own compare as the mountain and the mole hill...