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When the Germans overran Norway in April of 1940, Jakobson field to Sweden and finally to the United States. In this country he received a teaching position at Columbia and continued his work on the Igor Tale, the focal point of all his study. He has been devoting virtually all his research time to this Russian epic, and it is the main concern of his seminars...
...Igor Alexeff '52, physics; Leonard E. Baum '53, mathematics; Jolane P. Baumgarten 1G, medical sciences; John M. Birmingham 1G, chemistry; Robert J. Blattner '53, mathematics; Ronald C. Breslow '53, chemistry; Richard M. Chrenko 1G, physics; Edith C. Clarke, biochemistry; Victor H. Cohn, Jr. 1G, medical sciences; and Marshall L. Freimer '53, mathematics...
...American premiere of a full-length opera by a man whom many consider the greatest composer of the 20th century would have been a good opportunity for a cover story on Igor Stravinsky and The Rake's Progress. Instead, we were offered a nauseating little brushoff, squeezed in after a cover story on a female popular singer who, not just incidentally, represents "success" in a way that a great composer of serious music . . . could not possibly...
...joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...
...Igor Stravinsky...