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...about the forthright world of children. To get his material, Smith culled magazines, wrote teachers, interviewed parents. His literature covers letters, short stories, poems, essays and notes passed in class. He even included the early efforts of some literary lions. At six, for instance, Novelist Jean Stafford wrote an ode to gravel...
Students at Tanglewood this weekend--the next to last one of the season--will have the chance to hear works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Zino Francescatti as soloist, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in C major. Conductors will be Eleazor de Carvalho Friday, Leonard Bernstein Saturday, and Charles Munch Sunday...
...ambition to forgo performing for composing. At the Stratford (Ont.) music festival last week, he put his multiple talents on display. Within one two-hour program, he appeared as piano soloist, returned to hear the first concert performance of his String Quartet, followed that by conducting Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Class, under the direction of Chorister Timothy B. Cogan, of Lowell and New York City, will sing the Class Ode, written by Fletcher Hodges III, of Eliot and Pittsburgh. Dr. Buttrick will close the ceremonies with a benediction...
...skill and tact. But the last two intellectuals whom he photographed gave him a surprise. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life...