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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each year, the senior tutors' offices, Mr. Crooks' Dunster Street auctioneers, and a scattered army of pre-professional counselors (resident House pre-medical advisors et. al.) do a fine job of placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern...
...Mr. Harbison and the orchestra appeared to be most at their ease in the lively outer movements, where their energy and exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted...
Joel Sachs was the soloist, and though he was always musical his Bach seemed to me too fragile in places and too brusque in others. The employment of a Debussy pianissimo with generous use of the pedal is not always ideally suited to the baroque style. Yet Mr. Sachs showed he could play firmly and resonantly if he chose, even in mezza voce. The orchestral sections were rhythmical and well phrased...
...Pastore (K. 208) by the 19-year-old-Mozart opened the program, and the orchestra played this delectable trifle crisply enough, though the same strings that were so impressive in the Bach sounded rather thin here. Even early Mozart can stand a good 25 violins. But Mr. Harbison has done good work with his players, making their attacks sharp, their rhythm excellent, and even raising the level of intonation. There is reason to expect more good things from the orchestra...
...worked briefly for an Edison company in London in 1879 and whose novel, The Irrational Knot, had an Edisonian hero. Edison's American employees, said Shaw, were "free-souled creatures, excellent company; sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." Every one of them, Shaw noted, "adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy...