Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...
Walter H. Piston '24, (second from right), Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, talked on the challenge of modern music. He said he has rarely heard a composer who did not have something to communicate, and it is the responsibility of the listener to find...
...Walter Piston, professor of Music, will speak on Copland's topic. "The Challenge of Contemporary Music for the Listeners," Piston has won both the New York Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his symphonies...
...typical Piston works brought the program to a pleasant, if not profound, conclusion. The Sonatina for Viola and Harpsichord, played by Miss Pernel and Melville Smith, consists of two light, almost frivolous, allegros with a subdued adagio in between. Miss Pernel showed greater self-confidence than earlier in the evening, and Mr. Smith, except for an occasional harshness in tone, was quite satisfactory...
...Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, arranged for two pianos, drew the loudest applause of the evening, but perhaps that was because Mr. Piston himself was at one of the pianos. The music's substance was unclear--the themes undistinctive, the dissonances meaningless, and the two-piano arrangement not wholly successful. The piece appeared to be little more than long, scale passages, and the composer must have intended more than that. However, Piston and Tucker both played zealously, and it appeared that they, if no one else, knew exactly what was going...