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...attempt to combine the technical with the general education aspects of musical instruction is virtually unique. In the first place, the University is one of the few in the country which has retained musical education within the faculty of Arts and Sciences. Even at such institutions as Yale and Oberlin, courses in Music are given in special schools on both the undergraduate and graduate levels...
Trailers, station wagons and cars with bulging luggage compartments converged on Oberlin, Ohio last week. Most of the vehicles carried a young-looking woman and a large, wedge-shaped case. Each case contained an evening dress, coat, shoes and a makeup case besides its usual contents, a harp. All told, there were 50 girls and women, aged 14-40, and four men, who had come for three days of gossip, shoptalk, practice and, finally, a grand, massed harp concert...
...last week's concert, Oberlin College's Finney Chapel turned into a thrumming, humming place, where the music was sometimes strong and distinct (Bach, arranged for 20 harps), sometimes mysteriously vague (Debussy, arranged for five harps), sometimes murmurous like the sea (Salzedo's own Fraicheur, for 54 harps). When it was over, the audience applauded enthusiastically. One observer noted that even the older performers looked young. Harp Master Salzedo had the answer: "Most harpists are young or look young. I have known only one old harpist, and she was not good. Harp keeps them young...
...members of the committee are: Dean Francis Keppel '38 of the Graduate School of Education, Donald Oenalager '23, prominent stage designer who is also on the staff of the Yale School of Drama, Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of Art at Yale, Wolfgang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College, George Wald, professor of Biology, and John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Washington...
...Department of Williams College; Dean Francis Keppel '33 of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, prominent stage designer and member of the staff of the Yale School of Drama; Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of the Arts at Yale University; Wolfang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College; George Wald, professor of Biology; and John Walker...