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...purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four, the "Thoreau" movement is the kindest to its namesake. Its big surprise is the sudden addition of a lyrical, low-register, and entirely unseen flute. Monday night the flutist was nowhere on the program and even refused to come...
...Garrigue, work on both poetry and prose; Eileen Chang Reher, writing and translating Chinese literature; Elzbieta Chodakowska, the lawyer in American literature; Hannah D. French, a book-length manuscript on early American bookbinding; Barbara B. Green, government and politics of Eastern European countries; Patricia Grimsted, political attitudes in early nineteenth century Russia...
...most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...
...later had held two full professorships simultancously. These he sacrificed for the opportunity to create a new university. Harper did not intend Chicago to be one more traditional liberal arts college, so many of which had been started in the Midwest in the earlier nineteenth cenutry. He was determined to found a school of post-graduate instruction, modeled perhaps after Johns Hopkins and Clark University, in Worcester, Mass...
...main purpose in democratic terms is to conciliate a technology revolution with a democratic way of doing it and living together. That's the only way because on the other hand we could not go on with the old idea of a liberal nineteenth century concept of just politicians on one side and technicians obeying them all the time...