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Thornton Wilder, playwright and author, will be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at the University during 1950-51. He follows Paul Hindemith, current holder of the Norton Chair...
...Hindemith, the present chair-holder, is Battell Professor of the Theory of Music at Yale University. During the past 13 years he has been touring the United States giving concerts of his own works and performing with most of the leading American symphony orchestras...
...Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
...Hindemith is reworking musical theory himself to accommodate the tremendous developments in the use of musical materials during the past hundred years. Only when such a theory is developed and taught will composers have the requisite technical skill to be masters of their craft. They must, he holds, become proficient at the most elementary level of composition, the management of tones, and this can come only from understanding. "Then maybe we avoid some accidents...
Next year Hindemith will be teaching again at Yale, where he has been since 1939, the year after he left Germany. "It's nice to change, but I built up class there for ten years, and I don't give...