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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third upset, Kirkland tied Dudley, 4 to 4. Rog Swanson's and Dana Getchell scored two goals apiece for the Deacons, with Swanson's score in the last two minutes of the game clinching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Six Trips Eliot, 4-2; Dudley Ties Deacons, 4-4 | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante. Guest: Gloria Swanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Recognition has been a long time in coming to Negro Composer Howard Swanson, 42. Swanson knew at the age of nine that he wanted to be a musician, but he was 21 before he was able to begin well-rounded training. Working nights in a post office to support his family, he managed to put himself through the Cleveland Institute of Music. He won a fellowship to study composition in Paris. When the Germans took over, he fled to Spain, then returned to the U.S. and a routine job with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He went on composing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Anderson, finally got his name on a Carnegie Hall program. Among his other compositions he wrote two symphonies, and last season one of them brought him further recognition. Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor always on the lookout for new works for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, studied the score of Swanson's Short Symphony (his second), gave it a first performance in Carnegie Hall, and later included it in his Edinburgh Festival program. It was rich in melody and vigorous in rhythm, pleasing if not musically adventurous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Last week Howard Swanson got another boost. The New York Music Critics Circle judged Short Symphony (twelve minutes) the best new orchestral work heard in Manhattan last season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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