Word: piston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, yesterday expressed his great admiration for Toscanini. Referring to his conducting genius, Piston attributed Toscanini's success partly to his drive for perfection, his personality, and his great knowledge of musical scores, which he always conducted from memory...
...bubble" fuselage, the Vanguard will be able to carry two tons of freight and mail on the lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely of jet-powered Viscounts, Vanguards...
Miss Steiner played the Concerto for Cello by Saint-Saens, and Lubow performed Franz Liszt's Concerto for Piano No. 1 in E flat. Judges for the competition, which was held in Payne Hall, were Attilio Poto, Sodality conductor, Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, and Gregory Tucker...
...most successful rendition of the afternoon was given Walter Piston's Symphony No. 2. It is not an easy work to perform, and there were some decidedly rough spots, but the general spirit was strong, and for much of the time the Orchestra's tone was surprisingly good. Piston's mastery of orchestral effect was in evidence throughout the Symphony, and some of the brass writing is unsurpassed anywhere. The first movement is a highpoint in modern music, with widely contrasting themes of great drive and of great beauty. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, despite some fine playing in this work...
...will sing Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" tomorrow night at 8:30 in Sanders Theater. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will give a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Sanders Theater, consisting of Beethoven's First Symphony, Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso and Symphony Number 2 by Walter H. Piston, Walter Biglow Rosen Professor of Music...