Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story library will be added to the Music Building by the fall of 1956, Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Professor of Music, and Chairman off the Music Department, announced yesterday...
Almost all of the remaining $250,000 has been raised. Thompson said yesterday. Only $25,000 is still needed, for record players and other equipment. The record collection and listening rooms will be coordinated with those in the present building, he added...
...general philosophy of the courses in Music History and Literature is unlike those of the other Humanities in that it emphasizes depth rather than breadth. To Thompson, whom Dr. Davison has called "first among our native composers of choral music," education should be a deepening rather than a broadening experiences. If you take a survey course in the History of Music and then a survey course in, say, the Baroque period, are you necessarily more educated...
Because of the present reduction of the department, it is not completely possible to compare it with similar faculties in other institutions, yet the angling of the curriculum and the courses offered do invite such a comparison. If the present offerings are considered as Thompson expresses it, "a basic core curriculum for those wishing to concentrate," this becomes more feasible...
...Harvard Music Department is particularly fortunate in having Thompson and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24 the former on both undergraduate and grad