Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tonight's concert at Agassiz Theatre wind players of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Elmer Schoettle at the piano will perform three unusually interesting selections: Beethoven's "Sonata for Horn and Piano" op. 17; the Brahms "Clarinet and Piano Sonata" op. 120, no. 2; and the Mozart "Quintet for Winds and Piano." The Mozart Quintet is a charming example of his later style, and the rather sombre Brahms Sonata, though occasionally heard in the arrangement for viola, is seldom played in the original version...
...program is made up of modern works: "Choros II for Flute and Clarinet" by Villa-Lobos, a short rhythmical piece of great difficulty; "Three Counterpoints" by Honegger, which are gay pieces in spite of their academic form; and the second performance of Piston's "Sonata for Violin and Piano" (Mr. Piston will be at the piano...
From time to time the University has been accused of being impervious to suggestions for reform that come from below. That this is not necessarily so is shown again, for only satisfaction can be felt with Mr. Conant's adoption of the recommendations of the special faculty committee with regard to policy, tenure, and promotion of teachers. Now the road is paved for those whose ideas are not completely orthodox or whose teaching position is not fully assured...
Claiming the support of the Faculty as a whole, Mr. Conant should be able to see in the future a new flowering in all the departments of the College. Increased security undoubtedly will spike scholarly inhibitions and will produce a livening influence into even the most stolid of them. And this in turn will be related through the introduction of new methods into the undergraduates themselves, which after all, is quite an important consideration...
...first time in October, armed with pledges for $200,000. In November the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors with an exhibition of Lillie Bliss's fine Cezannes and other first-rate French paintings borrowed by President Goodyear in Europe. Reporters discovered young, lean, black-haired Mr. Barr looking tired, a description which it has been safe to apply ever since. The way people piled in, it might have been Madison Square Garden...