Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rubles,* finally planked down 300 rubles, signed some papers and took it with her. In an Izmailovo radio store a middle-aged man watched the clerk packing an expensive Luxe radio-phonograph and said: "I only had to pay 440 rubles, and we'll have music in our home this very night." Whether cameras, clocks, accordions, motor scooters, outboard motors or silver fox furs, the terms were everywhere the same: 20%-25% down, a service charge of up to 2%, and the rest deducted in six to twelve installments from the worker's monthly paycheck...
...that ran in London for 759 performances. The two men are Michael Flanders, who is vivacious and bearded and sails about in a wheelchair, and Donald Swann, who is mousy and bespectacled and stays put at the piano. Flanders wrote the words for the songs they sing, Swann the music. Flanders also does the talking between songs, which is now and then at Swann's expense. The two of them are notably British yet notably themselves-casual and informal, yet with the timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts. Altogether, they are as engagingly funny...
Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, announced yesterday that he will retire from teaching at the end of the academic year. Piston said he considers himself primarily a composer and will devote his full time to that upon retirement...
After graduating Summa Cum Laude, he began teaching at the University in 1928. Piston became an associate professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1944. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1948, and is the author of Harmony, Counterpoint, and Orchestra...
Piston now teaches graduate seminars in composition and 20th century music, and is known as the "dean" of the country's composition teachers. Piston is currently finishing a two-piano concerto. His Viola Concerto recently won an award as the best new orchestral work performed in New York during the season...