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...Walter Piston made one of his rare appearances on the concert stage when he conducted his won Divertimento for Nine Instruments. After a puzzling first movement came a subdued middle section and a spirited finale which was also played as an encore. The ensemble performed well, but not brilliantly...
Cocky Rocky, winner of all of his 37 fights (32 by knockouts), acted as if he had never heard of Joe Louis. Crowding, bulling, pumping and pummeling with short-range piston blows, Rocky wrestled Joe around the ring. In the early rounds, Joe made a stand, fighting with some inner instinct that could still make his aging body respond on cue. Sharp, probing Louis lefts started a mouse under Rocky's right eye. But when Joe spotted openings in Marciano's vulnerable defense, he could not follow through with his once explosive right; when...
Three of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's best performances in recent years are now available on LP records, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Piston's Third, and Bach's Triple Concerto, all highlights of Russell Stanger's first season as conductor of the orchestra, deserve--and have received--top-notch recordings of professional calibre...
...Pierian Sodality has released another new disc, consisting of music from last year's third concert. Walter Piston's Pulitzer Prize-winning Third Symphony is one of those contemporary works which cannot be fully appreciated on first hearing, and this record (pressed by Columbia) should help make the piece accessible...
Copland is now back at Harvard for the third times He is taking over the Charles Eliot Norton professorship this year after having replaced Walter Piston in 1935 after having held the Horatio Appleton Lamb chair in Music in 1944, Besides preparing the five Norton lectures and a half course in "Music in the '20's, "to be given this Spring, he is working on what he rather vaguely calls "a long piano piece." "You get a certain number of musical ideas; before they jell, you can't tell what it'll turn out to be." No more can Copland...