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...written by Davison's associates in the department and other well-known experts. Among the 36 contributors are G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, Walter Piston '24, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, and Willard L. Sperry, retired dean of the Divinity School...
Abandoning the quintet medium bristly, three of the musicians performed Walter Piston's Trio for flute, clarinet, and has soon. This is an excellent work and shows that a composer who understands woodwinds as well as Professor Piston can attain a greater subtlety and variety of effects from three instruments than, for example, Persichetti could from five in the Pastoral which was performed immediately before the Piston work. One of the most interesting features of the Trio is its experimentation with the colors which can be attained by fast and soft figurations in the flute and clarinet with the bassoon...
Those who have take Music I may want to pry deeper into the symphony with Music 135. The course covers composers from Haydn to Piston at the hours noted above and in a section on Monday from 2 to 4. Glee Club conductor G. Wallace Woodworth is the forceful lecturer, Room 2 of the Paine Music Building...
...Whitney's J-57. But the hardest hit was General Electric, a primary producer of the J-47. It will cut its monthly production in half. Packard and Studebaker will stop making J-47s by December. Nash will wind up production of Pratt & Whitney's R-2800 piston engine by May, and Chevrolet will stop making Wright's piston R-3350. Buick will continue making the Wright jet Sapphire only until present shortages are made up; then it will stop production. After the cutbacks go into effect, the only secondary supplier will be Ford, now tooling...
Excursion to Hades. Offenbach was a kind of 19th century, Parisian Cole Porter, only better. A superb musical satirist, he could also turn out sentimental waltzes and respectable grand opera, but his specialty was cancan, with its piston-like rhythm and irrepressible gaiety. Orpheus contains some of his best satire and his best cancan tunes. The libretto used at Lambertville (by the late Ring Lardner, with additional lyrics by Edward Eager) tries to modernize the original. The result is stained Varsity-Show humor, but still...