Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUTH," Leon Kirchner suggested in his remarkable introduction of Roger Sessions earlier this year, "has turned to the fountainhead of humanism only to find it constricted by mechanism." He was referring to the problem of the composer's relation to his art in a world transmogrified by mass media, as well as the acompanying problem of increasing audience estrangement from the innovative efforts of contemporary composers. The audiences increase in size yet deteriorate in understanding, incessantly lamenting the contemporary composer's august disregard for their prejudices...
...experiencing an exhilarating mid-century suspicion of our cultural inheritance. This attitude of critical activity is not a decline into functionalism but the discovery of a new quality of integrity. "Music," as Roger Sessions remarked in his opening lecture, "is to be judged on its own merits, however slowly they reveal themselves. . . . The criteria is authenticity and immediacy in regard to experience." Some way out of our present musical somnambula must be found. "The world," feels Mr. Kirchner, "needs shock treatment; this is the role of the avant-garde. It is sacrificial, self-immolating." The purpose of such...
Dover matched those free throws, but Roger Walaszek got the points back on a sneak-away. 44 seconds remained, Dover made a layup and then Columbia threw the ball away, trying to break the press. Sophomore Jay Noble took a pass form Dover for another layup, cutting the margin to two with 20 seconds now left...
...other junior standout, Heyward Dotson, an All-Ivy selection last year at guard, has been playing a lot in the center on offense this year with 7 ft. center Dave Newmark departed to the Pros. Both Dotson and 6'3" captain Roger Walaszek score between 16 and 18 points a game...
...decision was made by the Executive Committee of the department--consisting of Roger W. Brown, chairman, and the chairmen of each of the department's four sections--after a meeting with the leaders of the section on "Community Organizing: The Fight for Rent Control in Cambridge...