Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Japan, at the end of its tour, the Little Orchestra played still another Cowell gift to the Orient: a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku. Strongly flavored with the haunting sonorities of early Japanese court music, Ongaku was a success with the older members of the audience, but left some of the younger ones, whose musical diet is increasingly Western, faintly puzzled. Said one: "Frankly, it's too Japanese for us; it's a bit over our heads...
History 258, a spring half course conducted entirely in Russian, is one of nine new courses to be given next year by the History Department. The emphasis in this conference course, entitled "History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement," will be on the period from...
...symphony, performed in a manner which revealed a good many now-familiar characteristics of Mr. Poto and his orchestra; the out-of-tune winds, the unclear articulation in the strings, the surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which has a good grasp of technical problems and frequently produces fine sound, but which has difficulty in conveying the spirit of the music...
...with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed much the same sort of thing. Mr. Stewart's material seems promising; had he not spread it so thin the Variations might have been stronger. His orchestration, at any rate, showed considerable imagination...
Bruce K. Chapman '62, secretary of the Students for Rockefeller, said yesterday that the group anticipates a bandwagon movement for Rockefeller to gather speed "by Christmas at the latest." Mark K. Adams '60, chairman of the group, predicted that its greatest activity would take place next year...