Word: piston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members promoted and their new titles are: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics and tutor in the Division of Physical Sciences, from next September 1; Walter 1L, Piston, Jr., associate professor of Music, from next September...
...week Director Lyman J. Briggs of the Bureau of Standards called the difference between the British inch and the U. S. inch "intolerable." The new standard will reduce the inch by 1/508,001 of its present length. Pointing out that the most precise industrial measurements (of wrist pins for piston rods, etc.) are accurate only within one ten-thousandth of an inch, Director Briggs said: "Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile would...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
After the large audience that had come to hear Paul Hindemith, viola, and Jesus Sanroma, piano, had fidgeted for half an hour before an empty stage, Walter H. Piston, Jr., '24, assistant professor of Music, announced that Hindemith would play the first number without benefit of piano accompaniment...
When the piece was finished, Piston was forced to admit that the Piano must have gone badly astray, and the audience adjourned en masse to Paine Hall for the rest of the recital...