Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contemporary choral music owes a large debt to Randall Thompson. Throughout this century successive composers, each with a slightly more fiendish glint in his eye, have produced choral music that was less and less vocal, melodic, even singable; Thompson has maintained a style of choral writing distinctly congenial to the human voice. For there is more to his music than the lush harmonic changes and expressive dynamics; Thompson is fun to sing...
...Among Thompson's former students at Harvard are G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music; David G. Hughes '47, chairman of the Music Department; and James E. Haar '50, instructor in Music...
...Thompson wrote the controversial Carnegie Corporation Report on the teaching of music in liberal arts colleges, which discouraged giving credit for practical music...
...People were loyal to their organizations and they worked with them well. Individual performance was often of a very high order. On the contrary, where practical music was accredited as a part of the curriculum, there was apt to be far less enthusiasm, and far less accomplishment and loyalty," Thompson said...
After his retirement, Thompson will devote his time to composing and will retain no formal connection with the University...