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...announcements indicating that its most active season since the turn of the century is under way. Together with the appointment of one of America's foremost musical scholars, Otto Kinkeldy, as a lecturer for 1946-47, Arthur Tillman Merritt, chairman of the field, reported preliminary ideas for a spring symposium at the University on music criticism...
...three-day symposium, as sketched, would be unique in American musical history, designed to attract scores of critics, writers, musicians, composers, and teachers to the University in May. The central portion of the meeting would consist of talks in Sanders Theatre by widely-known experts on many facets of the various musical fields. Nightly concerts featuring new works by noted composers are projected...
...Imperial Symposium...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
...faculty: Producers Oscar Hammerstein and Brock Pemberton, Director Margaret Webster, Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins, Designer Donald Oenslager, Theatrical Pressagent Richard Maney, CBS's Worthington Miner, some 100 other theater and radio names. Most of them would take part in the most popular course: the theater symposium, a big bull session designed to brief students on developments in their business during the last four years...