Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American choral composers today, Professor Randall Thompson '20 certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include...
...Thompson's instrumental music, while less abundant than his choral work, has also been well received. His second symphony, written in 1932, has been performed over five hundred times, most recently by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. "The best thing about it all," says the composer, "is that my pieces are played over and over again. I'm fortunate enough not to have to worry about getting the usually elusive second hearing...
...Thompson, noted for the flambuoyant color combinations of his tweedy clothing, talks slowly, with modesty and a quiet wit suggesting the restraint of a New England school teacher. A strong academic strain runs through Thompson's entire career. His father, a New Englander, taught at private schools, and Thompson himself was a professor at Wellesley, the University of California, the University of Virginia, and Princeton before being appointed to the faculty here. In 1935, after three years of research sponsored by the Association of American Colleges, he published an important study on musical education entitled College Music...
Lightest Peeper. The Dage Television Division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. has developed for military use the lightest portable television camera-transmitter yet offered for sale, the Tele-Tran. Weighing only 4 lbs. for the camera, plus twelve for a backpack transmitter, the assembly sends pictures to half a mile. Price...
...practically given up on him as a hurdler, Tom Blodgett, already the team's best pole vaulter, demonstrated enough improvement in speed and endurance to re-establish himself as number two man behind Joel Landau. Wink Pescosolido and Pat Liles developed rapidly as low hurdlers, and distance runner Willy Thompson showed signs of life after a discouraging indoor season...