Word: piston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of three chamber music concerts by the Boston String Quartet will take place in Sanders Theatre. Sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, these concerts have been unusually interesting because they have presented the works of Harvard composers exclusively. Today's program consists of a Trio by Walter Piston '24. Professor Hill's Quartet in C major, and a Piano Quintet in A major by John Alden Carpenter...
Concentrators' comments on the faculty in the Department: Hill--amusing but choppy lecturer, good for elementary courses, authority on orchestration. Leichtentritt--lectures well, overemphasizes detail, an authority on opera. Davison--grand lecturer, expert in church music. Ballantine-- although weak as lecturer and tutor, authority on appreciation and form. Piston--his field composition, excellent lecturer and tutor for advanced men. Merritt--completely enthralled by music and thus inspiring and a good tutor, especially for more advanced men. Woodworth--excellent as glee club leader, not as strong as tutor. Ramseyer--excellent job as assistant in Music 4, best piano player in Department...
...Boston Symphony in giving the fifth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tonight. The program consists of Beetheven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral), Debussy's "Prelude a I' Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet...
Last week the Society of Automotive Engineers, meeting in Detroit, installed as its new president able, burly Ralph Rowe Teetor, vice president and research director of Perfect Circle Co. (piston rings). This topflight engineer saw none of the charts which accompanied technical discussions. He is totally blind...
...Teetor enterprise has changed its name several times and switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day. It has more Teetors than Sun Oil has Pews. Hagerstown has less than 2,000 inhabitants, but a third of them work for Perfect Circle and the town has no unemployment. Perfect Circle mail grew so heavy that little Hagers-town got an $80,000 post office...