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Since then he says he has followed the regular order of things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic...
Fine is highly esteemed by Koussevitzky and has been closely associated with him as a student of conducting at Tanglewood. Not long ago, Koussevitzky called him in unexpectedly to play the piano solo in the Martinu Concerto Grosso. During the rehearsal, Fine, who was reading the work for the first time, made a mistake. Koussevitzky mistook his grimace for a smile and stopped the Orchestra. In the thick Russian accents which defy reproduction, the Conductor announced, "When we make a mistake in this Orchestra, we don't laugh; we weep!" Koussevitzky was so impressed with the epigram that after...
...refer to Irving Fine as "a man of promise." His most recent compositions and his varied activities in the University, however, have shown that he is already an all-around musician of highest standing in America. By his music he will be known in the future. An advanced student at Tanglewood last summer commented after hearing one of his works, "I should like to congratulate Mr. Fine for expressing all he has to say through his music...
Herbert A. Philbrick of the F.B.I., a bombshell government witness in New York's Communist conspiracy trial, today accused the wife of a Harvard graduate student of preaching civil war in the United States if this country became embroiled in war with Russia...
There is still hope that congress will pass a resolution introduced last month by Senator Flathers, Republican from Vermont. This would provide for the release of at least three more transports for student travel. At present the resolution is awaiting a hearing before the Marine and Fisheries Committee of the Senate...