Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four ambitious large-scale works were included on the program. The main problems here for the incipient composer are over-all form and stylistic consistency, plus the special difficulties involved in writing a slow movement (which often trips up even the best-established composers). Frederic Rzewski '58's Sonata for Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski...
...remaining music on the program consisted of items on a smaller scale. John Austin '56 continued his laudable concentration on contrapuntal techniques in his Three Madrigals for flute, violin, 'cello and piano, and Five Fugal Pieces for two violins and viola. These pieces preserved his customary refined, conservative, low-voltage, post-Delius style--except the third of the latter group, which fell back into the style of Austin's teacher, Roy Harris. Even in the Madrigals, the linear emphasis extended to the piano parts, which maintained melodic interest at all times rather than just serving as harmonic background...
...remain "appropriate to the site and country." Surveying the site during a trip to London last year, Saarinen (whose most recent projects have been General Motors' $68 million Technical Center in Detroit and M.I.T.'s tricornered Kresge Auditorium and cylindrical chapel-TIME, Dec. 5) decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform to surrounding heights and match cornice lines to nearby buildings...
...situation turns in a vicious circle. The planners quit because the city does not pay them enough. The salary scale runs $500-1500 below that for comparable Massachusetts cities. The city does not pay the planners enough because it feels that the planners don't do anything, and the reason they don't 'do' anything is that the city has not implemented their suggestions...
...purposes of the change, he said, will be to increase efficiency and fairness in courses with both graduate and undergraduate students. Instructors will be urged to use the same marking scale for all students...