Word: piston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
Walter H. Piston '24 has been named as the first man to hold the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music. Professor Piston, a leading American composer, has received wide acclaim for his chamber and symphonic compositions. His latest work, the Third Symphony, was given its world premier by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last January...
...chair, established by a gift of Walter W. Naumberg '89, retired New York banker, Professor Piston will continue to teach orchestration and composition to University students. His promotion leaves one vacant professorship in the Music Department...
Koussevitsky has chosen a varied program, including both modern and classic works. Mozart's perennial favorite, the Serenade for Strings, Dine Kleine Nachtmusik, will be played, along with representative selections from three modern composers, Piston, Prokofieff, and Ravel...
...addition to the Mozart opus, Walter Piston's Symphony No. 3, Prokofiefi's Seythian Suite, Ala and Lolli, and Maurice Ravel's impressionistic Daphnis et Chloe Suite will be delivered before what is expected to be a sellout audience...