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...Kankakee, Ill., found itself in a fiscal predicament. Community unemployment had reached 13%, and working-class parents could no longer afford the school's $850 yearly tuition. Enrollment had dropped steadily for a decade. The full tuition fell far short of the school's cost per pupil (estimated at $1,400 a year), but no increase was possible. Then school officials decided to try a new tactic: negotiating tuition...
...visited Paris in 1877-78; Tcherepnin did the same in 1921 because of political troubles in Tibilisi, where he had moved. The Tcherepnin trio shows the influence of contemporary French composers like Darius Milhaud. But the trios resemble each other only insofar as Tcherepnin's father Nikolai was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, who had been friends with Taneyev. It is unlikely, though, that Taneyev had a significant influence on Rimsky-Korsakov, who composed 'Flight of the Bumble Bee" (destined to become the theme song of The Green Hornet...
...other works, Thomson has dabbled in modality and flirted with serialism; like Ives, he is not above quoting a famous melody (like My Country, 'Tis of Thee) when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger; the opening chords of the Louisiana Story suite might have been harmonized by Ravel. But whatever the style, the music is always unmistakably Thomson's: attractively urbane, piquant, eminently civilized...
...quite a case himself. Said he: "I stood many an evening on a soapbox, preaching 'Socialism, the Hope of the World.' " In 1912, while teaching at the anarchist Ferrer Modern School in New York City, he met dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator. She died just 13 days before...
Sister Mary Ignatius (Elizabeth Franz) has taught for many years at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow school. She believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins. The sister pops a cookie into his mouth after each impeccable response, and Stefan plays the role with the precision of an ordained parrot...