Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma's festive In Celebration: Toccata for the Sixth Day). But of the four new works, Barber's seemed...
Back home on California dragstrips, Leasher had often exceeded 180 m.p.h. in piston-engined cars. But this was something else again. On the first test run, the massive jet blasted the car to 330 m.p.h...
...July 27: 3:15 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event - Aspects of Music. 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Charles Munch - Debussy: Printemps - Piston: Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony...
...nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes on a piston-legged, cliffside pursuit of an old lady's runaway wheelchair, with the old lady in it, while a brass band spiritedly renders I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General...
COLBY COLLEGE Walter Piston, composer...