Word: muching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for its effect. Moreover, it is written without much care for the capacities of the individual instruments and makes enormous, almost unattainable, demands on the rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems not, even after several hearings, to have justification...
...Adagio for String Orchestra, the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11, which he later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material, requires much control of intonation and dynamics. The strings met its challenge well and, by the enormous crescendo near the end, their tone fairly shimmered with intensity...
...name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
...with academic tradition" had been in large part won. The academic reforms he demanded in his inaugural had become realities, the Houses he envisioned had been built, and the academic freedom he championed had been established. Whether he had changed student attitude or the character of student society as much as he liked to believe is debatable; that he had changed the face of Harvard...
...Hollanders everywhere, a Philips' incandescent lamp bulb is as much a symbol of their country as a tulip. Founded in 1891 by studious Gerard Philips, 32, a professor at the Delft Polytechnic School, the company started out in an abandoned tannery making 30 light bulbs a day. Though Philips taught himself and then ten ex-farm hands how to make bulbs, he was no good at selling them. In 1895 the company was up for sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began...