Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerts will grace the University scene tonight, one by the Harvard Band at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater, the other sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs at 8:30 p.m. in Paine Music Building...
...Music Club concert features composer pianist Louise Talma and Phyllis Curtin, soprano. The program includes a sonata for two planes by Claudio C. Spies '51, a suite by Randall Thompson, and some of the works of Arnold Schonberg...
...years ago, a slender, dark-haired 18-year-old from Philadelphia named Norman Carol stepped up to show the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Serge Koussevitzky what he could do with a fiddle and bow. He did well enough to win a scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center that summer and, more unusual, a seat in the first-violin section of the Boston Symphony...
Koussevitzky's interpretation of the Ninth made clearer and even more awesome the strake simplicity of Beethoven's music. The opening bars of the first movement, just simple open fifths descending in the strings, were built up inexorably to the first statement of the theme by the whole orchestra in unison. It is a simple dominant-tonic progression, the first thing taught in an elementary harmony course. Simple means indeed, but nothing more overpowering has even been written...
...stimulus Dr. Koussevitzky has given American music is immeasurable, and it is for this achievement, rather than for his interpretive ability, that, I believe, he will be remembered. His contributions to the orchestra will still be noticeable in coming years, and though these years will, undoubtedly be different, there is no reason to believe they will be in any way inferior...