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...present performances have skirted the edge of adequate. The "members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra" played rather abominably for Nadia Boulanger Tuesday night, with an unnamed trumpet committing murder upon Piston's fine orchestration of Funerailles de Pandore...
Nadia Boulanger, former pupil of the French composer, has directed the festival, which will feature Faure's later and least-known works. Miss Boulanger was the teacher of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24, professor of Music...
Ralph "railroader" Rolling, after a lengthy talk on piston rods and steam pressure, has decided with Ray Kallaus that trains were meant to ride on, not to be worked on--at least in their generation...
...quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their course, again when a Jap cruiser chased them for miles, raced them into a rain squall that saved them by folding them in blackness. They just made it to a friendly port, for as they pulled dockside a piston cracked; their motors wouldn't have turned another time...
King's Medalist. By any U.S. standard, Poet Wystan (rhymes with piston) Hugh Auden is an odd fish. To such plain U.S. readers as may be exposed to it, most of his poetry seems still odder. Nevertheless, at 37, Auden is generally rated the most influential poet of his generation. For the Time Being, his twelfth book, is likely to be the year's most discussed book of poetry...