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...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...
...Concerto for Orchestra," the work of Walter H. Piston '21, assistant professor of Music, will be played for the first time tonight at Sanders Theater by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky...
...school's advisory board, of which Dr. Archibald T. Davison '06, conductor of the Glee Club, is chairman, also includes: Edward B. Hill '94, chairman of the Division of Music, Walter Piston '24, assistant professor of Music, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
Courses in the Department of Music group themselves into three chief types, according to the men who give them; technical, appreciative, and scholastic. In the fast class are the materials of musical technique--Harmony, Counterpoint, and Composition. The instructors in this branch are Professor Piston and Mr. Merritt. Professor Piston is a man of great ability, in full command of his subject, and actually engaged in musical composition. No less capable as an instructor is Mr. Merritt, enthusiastic to the last degree, with an omnivorous musical appetite. The method of instruction in these courses is based on the French system...
Preconceptions were jogged out of routine thinking last night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them...