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Four-hand piano playing, as it is practiced by most amateurs, is a little like a doubles match with everyone serving at the same time. But when two good professional pianists take time to master the exacting technique of playing together at the same keyboard, the result is often music-making of high order. Last week Manhattan audiences had a chance to hear the best four-hand team since the late, famed Josef Lhevinne played with his wife Rosina. Occasion: a concert at Carnegie Hall by young Viennese Pianists Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...
Twenty-fifth Reunion classes will someday return to live entirely in the Houses, Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, predicted yesterday. He praised a proposal made to that effect last Wednesday by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...
Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, also thought that Reunions centered in the Houses were "a likely development," but he said they would be "slow in coming." Technical problems would stand in the way of lodging returning alumni in their former Houses, he asserted...
...think that in the future, 25th reunion classes will have people for whom the House was the main center of College activity," Perkins stated. John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, agreed that "the transition of 25th reunions from a class to a House orientation is inevitable...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, suggested that a special alumni program might be arranged in the Common Room to discuss changes that have taken place. "For some time we have had small meetings with graduates who arrive before reunion activities," Finley added...