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...conductor, his unquestionable brilliance is sometimes obscured by his podium manner. He never uses a baton, relying instead on his highly expressive hands and indeed on his whole body. Is the music delicate, finely and rapidly interwoven? "Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable...
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...