Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other people through the years have composed material for the Band, but a great deal of it was lost during the war, especially the scores. Isolated people have also done work recently, such as the Massachusetts medley written by my brother, Class of '41, formerly a musician and now in the bond business. Ken Mittell, a former Harvard track man, has also composed a new Harvard medley which we hope to use at the Dartmouth game...
...This year we hope to have a noted musician visit Dunster for a few days," Fair remarked, "perhaps a violinist...
Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
Steve is the only Harvard musician for whom jazz is a "vocation, not an avocation," and he stands almost alone as a music major with jazz orientation. He feels the great percentage of music faculty members snub their noses at jazz, and moreover thinks this is "strange, and a shame, for well-schooled musicians." The reaction is ironically negative: "they won't accept jazz as an art form, when in a way it's the only art form that's truly American...
...write three more symphonies. King George V gave him the Order of Merit in 1935, but he declined many other honors, knighthood included. He may not have attained the wide popularity of that musical Kipling, Sir Edward Elgar, but international professionals respected Vaughan Williams as the more important musician. And all England loved him as Sir Malcolm Sargent described him: "A darling fat man walking about clasping a bowler hat to his tummy and wearing the widest trousers in Christendom...