Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teacher Salzedo rules his brood of high-strung harpists with a soft voice and an iron hand. He begins the summer session by outlawing the wearing of slacks, ordering the hair to be worn on top of the head ("It goes with the instrument") and personally trimming each student's fingernails to the quick...
Sebastian Bach's teacher. A Schillinger composer uses numbers for musical notes and rhythms, and geometrical figures for harmonies. He chooses a combination of numbers and geometrical figures which pleases his fancy, then plots this combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
...Music Teacher Phyllis Brefka, 23, was just about to strike up the band at the annual Mayville (Wis.) High School graduation picnic. Suddenly four graduating girls who disliked her grading system swooped, grabbed her, dumped her in a nearby river. Last fortnight each of the four was fined $15 plus $11.30 costs. Teacher Brefka had filed charges, "in the hope," she said, "that it would discourage "other pupils from subjecting more teachers to involuntary baths...
...awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
Doctor of Science: Roger Adams '08, head of the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois: "Famed as a teacher and investigator, the war leader of American chemists; both men and molecules react benignly as he plans...