Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breaks, has been here since. In 1938 he studied in New York with Nadia Boulanger, the famous French teacher, and followed her back to Paris for the summer of '39. With the out-break of the war, he returned to Harvard to become a teaching fellow in the Music Department...
...things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers a similar course...
...thinks teaching should be mixed with composition, and he has been writing music steadily since he composed the score for a Dunster House musical not long after his return from Paris. He has done a good deal of choral composition, and his works include the Alice in Wonderland Suite and The Choral 'New Yorker.' Koussevitzky has heaped praise on his Toccata Concertante. It has had several performances this year by the Boston Symphony and was played under the composer's direction at Sanders Theater this winter. His new Partita for Woodwind Quintet was performed last month at M.I.T...
...acting conductor of the Glee Club several years ago and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, Fine has been encouraging the performance of rarely heard contemporary and older music, a responsibility he feels strongly. Under his guidance, the Music Club has been revived since the war for the best years in its history...
...years, Fine wrote about music in Boston for the magazine. "Modern Music," a quarterly written entirely by composers. But he sees the value of criticism by composers more for what it reveals of the artist himself than as important opinion on other works...