Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Brooklyn's Aaron Copland of Brooklyn's Roger Sessions: "He writes his music for titans." Mainly for that reason, Composer Sessions, 64, enjoys a doubtful distinction in contemporary music: he is more often seen than heard. To make "the music as well known as the name," Northwestern University and the Fromm Music Foundation last week sponsored the first "retrospective one-man exhibition" of Sessions' works. In three days the audience heard ten compositions-or more than half of Sessions' lifetime output...
...Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
...million, put up 300 new college buildings, and opened five new campuses from North Carolina to Alaska. The empire under varying degrees of Methodist control has 205,500 students in 136 schools, including 77 colleges, 21 junior colleges, 12 seminaries and 8 universities (American, Boston, Denver, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Syracuse...
...years, on and off, the U.S. and Canada had been talking about a treaty providing for cooperative development of the Columbia River, and the failure to agree on such a treaty had slowed up the growth of the U.S. Northwest. Example: the Libby Dam project in northwestern Montana had been stalled for a decade because Canada was reluctant to see a U.S. dam built on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary that rises in Canada, crosses into the U.S., then swings northward across the border again...
...Ball, 51, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Another Stevensonian, Lawyer Ball was executive director of Adlai's volunteer groups in the 1952 campaign, took charge of his candidate's public relations in 1956. He is no stranger to Treasury corridors. After his graduation from Northwestern's law school in 1933, he served two years in Treasury during the yeasty reign of Henry Morgenthau Jr. before going into private practice in Chicago. Ball was a wartime federal gadfly for the Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration-experience that proved useful in his postwar private practice...