Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul E. DesMarais '49 was elected president of the Music Club Tuesday night, at the group's final gathering of the term. Also chosen to direct club activities next fall are Douglas Allanbrook '48 as vice-president, James R. Blake '48 as Secretary-treasurer, and Peter Gram Swing '44 and John T. Swing '50 as Program Committee members...
...times have I gone home a defeated man." The speaker was Olin Downes, the occasion was the final discussion session of last week's "Symposium on Music Criticism," and the speech was an extemporaneous one in answer to some statements made earlier in the day by Columbia's Professor Paul H. Lang. The New York Times' music critic sometimes was "defeated," he explained, because he felt he had left something important out of a review, or perhaps and stated an objection too strongly, or failed to emphasize some idea. Put this together with a later statement, in which Downes assured...
...Albany, Baritone Paul Robeson (who likes the way the U.S.S.R. does things) had a singing date yanked out from under him by the Board of Education, which suddenly changed its mind about letting him sing in a local high school. Communist-liner Robeson's sponsors went to court, hoped to force the board to cancel its cancellation...
...second concert of the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism offered last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang...
About 150 seats also are left for each of the five speaking sessions and discussions, which will include speeches by E. M. Forster, British critic and author, Virgil Thomson '22, the New York Herald Tribune's critic-composer, and Paul H. Lang, author, and professor of music at Columbia...