Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain...
The fourteen solo songs, sung by soprano Anne Hollander, tenor Frank Davidoff and baritone Robert Simon, included examples of medieval French minstrelsy, with their German, Italian and English counterparts, plus accompanied songs by such later masters as Machaut, Dufay and Binchois.
Top laurels must go to Simon, who was in perfect voice, with ne'er a hint of a rough-edged tone. His diction, in four languages, was always impeccably clear. I was particularly impressed by his singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald...
The juxtaposition of two works--one from the School of Worcester and the other by Dunstabe--served to point up the great differences between the medieval and Renaissance approach: the former was sturdy and barbaric, the lines being forced into a rhythmic strait-jacket with a witting unconcern for beauty...
Professor Otto J. Gombosi, professor of Music, died of a heart attack at his home yesterday. Professor Gombosi, who had been with Harvard since 1952, was one of the foremost authorities in medieval and Renaissance music.