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Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
...PLANE ORDER will soon be awarded by United Air Lines, which will replace its short-haul fleet of 54 piston-engine Convairs with turboprops or jets at cost of about $150 million. Company is leaning toward Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. Electra turboprop...
...London reported that another shipload of Communist arms-the seventh since January-recently arrived at the Yemen port of Salif, where, under the telescopes of watchers on the British Kamaran Islands in the Red Sea, Egyptian officers directed the unloading of T-34 tanks, piston-engine trainer planes, antiaircraft guns, military vehicles and small arms. The British, already in trouble fighting the Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted...
...growth is leveling off. While passenger volume climbed 18% in 1955, it increased only 13% in 1956, will probably gain only 10% this year. Moreover, the airlines have reached the economic limit of efficiency with their present fleets. For the first time in commercial air operations, the most modern piston-engine plane, Douglas Aircraft's DC-7, cannot haul enough passengers far enough and fast enough to compensate for its higher initial cost and increased repair and gas bills...
After a brilliantly witty commentary, Walter Piston '24, Namburg Professor of Music, conducted his own immaculate "Divertimento for Nine Instruments." Robert Brink was the fine soloist in the first local performance of the revised version of Alan Hovhaness' Concerto No.2 for Violin and String Orchestra, a rather bland neo-modal work. Carl Ruggles' extremely dissonant Angels was written for either string or brass ensemble; the performance here by strings could not equal the extraordinary effect that three trumpets and five trombones can achieve. The concert ended with Daniel Pinkham '44 conducting the combined chorus and orchestra in his new Wedding...