Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Sunday's program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285...
Leonard Bernstein '39 conducted the modern half of the program, including the Stravinsky concerto "Dumbarton Oaks," whose changes of time, every few measures, from 5/4 to 7/8 to 11/16, make it a very difficult piect to conduct. Mr. Bernstein, however, handled these rhythmical difficulties with perfect precision and firmness.
All this called for mathematical precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design...
A small house of hot weather concert-goers enthusiastically received the first of a series of summer concerts by a small group of players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon in-Sander Theatre. The 15-piece orchestra opened this all-Mozart program with the light and sparkling Divertimento in...
Fitted together with workmanlike precision, this novel runs its 234 pages with far more intelligence and subtlety than the average. It is a story of three people: