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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking from the technical standpoint, there is no doubt one of the finest. Though every music magazine in the country has taken a shot at explaining his "Apple Annie" method of blowing out his checks while playing (distinctly unorthodox), or panning him for it, the still true that he has good tone and really gets around on his horn...
...views are based on our experience in advanced courses; and are applicable to other courses only to the extent that good teaching in one division implies good teaching in the other. We think Mr. Bunde's conclusions bear usually a likeness to truth: many of his comments seem reasonable, though marred by a lack of ability to weigh merits in a difficult and complex field against weakness, by a lack of the tolerance and appreciation which would make for a truer kind of truth than his sometimes thin reasoning confidently attains...
...Though Harvard was left out in the cold, Tech received the income from a quarter of the estate for scholarships, but only "so long as radical doctrines were not taught...
Proposing that all men on the Dean's list will be guaranteed admission 'though not necessarily to their House of first choice," the petition goes on to suggest that all men in Group Four who are engaged in at least three specified "important" extra-curricular activities, also be assured a place in one of the Houses...
These composers are not lacking in individuality and originality. Like the lesser artists of any period who for some reason have not produced the consistently superior quality of work which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons...