Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lucid music-appreciation lectures. A leaner, older-looking Lenny-part of the change was obviously due to a haircut-was in top form as conductor, showman and talker, although the grandeur of the Ninth had him reaching hard for genius-sized words. Bernstein conducted the symphony's final movement in a brilliantly balanced performance. The Philharmonic had played the Ninth under Guest Conductor Herbert von Karajan at Carnegie Hall the week before and, said Bernstein, "I changed whatever I had to because of the differences of personal interpretation. It probably sounded very different." Both Beethoven and Bernstein were...
Unfortunately, having launched a top-notch series, the sponsor (Lincoln) marred it by ill-chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...
Sheldon Lubow '60, a student of Claudio Arrau, will be the recitalist this Saturday at 2:45 p.m. in a concert at the Gardiner Museum. His program will include a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Chopin's "Funeral March" Sonata, and the last movement from the Samuel Barber Sonata...
...since the war, there has been a new movement. During World War II, when the government had to teach men French, German, Italian and other languages and had to teach them in a hurry, it was found that a far greater emphasis on actual speaking of the language was particularly effective. Tape recorders were pressed into use and men taught foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved...
...offerings on the West. But Harvard offers courses in the history of the South, colonial history, and oceanic history. While Western history may not be considered cosmopolitan in academic circles, the University should transcend its usual provincialism and provide at least one course in the history of the Western Movement...