Word: piston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Bostonians, after a fortnight of Munch their orchestra was already beginning to sound a trifle different, more relaxed and spontaneous. Expert ears, such as those of Harvard's Composer Walter Piston, found it "less fat." Composer Aaron Copland thought that "Munch probably looks for sonority more than Koussevitzky. And the orchestra didn't have quite the violence that...
Both clubs combined to open the program with "Ecce Jam Noctis" by George W. Chadwick, arranged for brass and woodwinds by Walter Piston. The work was very interesting, but it was hampered by the poor playing of members of the Yale hand and singing which was not nearly so polished as that in the rest of the program...
...specially prepared arrangement by Walter Piston, Jr. '24, Naumberg Professor of Music, will highlight the program. Professor Piston has arranged George W. Chadwick's "Ecce Jam Noctis" for male chorus, brass, and woodwind...
...well. The Council found that 159 colleges and universities are buying commercial enterprises out of endowment funds or with the tax-exempt earnings of businesses they have taken over. Example: New York University takes all the profits from the C. F. Mueller Co. (macaroni, spaghetti & noodles), Ramsey Corp. (piston rings), the $3,300,000 American Limoges China Inc. and the $35 million Howes Leather Co. On their earnings the companies would be paying all told an estimated $1,500,000 a year in federal taxes, if they were still privately held...
...unfortunate that Walter Piston's Second Suite did not go over better than it did. It is a difficult piece both to play and understand. The orchestra certainly did its part in the performance, but the audience sat on its hands until the composer went up to the podium to congratulate Mr. Munch...