Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention has been called to the letter of yours that Cyrus Durgin, drama and music critic of the Boston Globe, printed in last Sunday's newspaper. I was shocked to find a person of your eminence unleashing such an ill-timed and sloppily thought-out barrage against the Cambridge Drama Festival's tenancy this summer of the new, State-constructed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC); and I was surprised to see Mr. Durgin rising to your bait...
Monday, August 10: 8:30 p.m., concert, "Songs and Piano Music of the Twentieth Century," Dorothy and John Crawford, Bruce Archibald, featuring works by Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, in Sanders Theatre...
...although Falk's project has been discontinued, another new group under the aegis of the Boston Summer Playhouse is now offering its first season of shows at the Charles Playhouse in Boston. The Tufts Arena Theatre seems to be getting along as well as ever; and the several local music circuses are reportedly doing unprecedentedly good business...
...guiding principle of the music critic should be to seek out and discover the "internal life" in a piece of music, according to Bernard Haggin, music reviewer for The Nation. In a speech entitled "The Approach to Music," delivered Thursday in Sanders Theatre, he said that "music is made to live by the surprises in composition and changes in harmony and melody" which are created by the author to interest the music lover and to create variety...
Criticizing the use of history to explain the compositions of great artists of the past, he said that even so great an artist as Mozart becomes artificial to present-day music lovers if he is seen only through history...