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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway. His boat was setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...
...would be sound and helpful, can generate chaos if they come so quickly that men cannot adjust themselves to all of them simultaneously. I think that nothing is more needed at the present time than a prolonged period of quiet, not a three to six months' breathing spell, but a two or three years' breathing spell, during which both Government and business can consolidate, modify and assimilate what has already been done, and during which also it will be possible to study quietly the basis of further reform...
...Pops have a strange recollective quality about them, and the Vagabond sits with a claret lemonade in his hand steeping himself in the past. He remembers this same Symphony Hall under the uncivilized spell of Benny Goodman's baton and marvels that a building can be so versatile in its atmosphere. He remembers a superb woman violin soloist of former years who later married a popular Boston orchestra leader, and while the purples and reds of Ravel swirl from the orchestra, he wonders how in the world the management reaches those chandeliers to change the bulbs. He sees disillusioned Seniors...
Perky young U. S. composers often try to cut their teeth on symphonies, try writing musical epics before they have learned how to spell cat, musically speaking. An exception is Boston's softspoken, dark-eyed Walter Piston, who last week conducted the premiere of his First Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Like Composers Brahms and Bruckner, Composer Piston had bided his time until he was well into his forties...
Long words, like these, above him wove no spell...