Word: middletons
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...Middleton, a middle-aged British businessman, is walking home from his club with his friend Mr. Addinsell...
...special group of judges was asked to study the scores and select works for two appealing, well-balanced programs. After three weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...
...special intermission feature, Professor Copland, Mr. Middleton and Mr. Sapp discussed these works candidly, directing all their comments at the composers themselves. Davison, Mandelbaum, and Wyner either defended themselves or accepted the criticisms: bad instrumentation, over-length, and so on. The discussion built up the rapport so often lacking between composer and listener...
Music on the program was briefly discussed by Aaron Copland, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Robert E. Middleton, instructor in Music, and Allen D. Sapp, instructor in Music. Copland termed the festival "just what the composer needs. There is no better way to learn what you put into a piece than to learn what others are geting out of it," he said...
Gunman Bondurant had forced a Memphis lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...