Word: tschaikowsky
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...self-appointed spokesman for the "musical intellectuals" of the Class of '45, I am naturally indignant at Mr. Baggaley's misrepresentation of our point of view. According to Mr. Baggaley, we "charge that Tschaikowski is over sentimental, sacrificial, and entirely without claim to immortality." While we admit the first two charges as our own, we challenge Mr. Baggaley to prove that we are also responsible for the third...
...chuckling at the ludicrous letter written by Mr. Andrew Baggaley '45, which appeared in the Crimson November 24, glorifying the music of Peter I. Tschaikowski. If I am, in Mr. Baggaley's own words, a "self-styled musical intellectual," I can only deduce that he is a "self-styled musical degenerate...
...true attitude toward Tschaikowski is simply this: because of his over-sentimentality, his superficiality, and especially his lack of musical ingenuity, he cannot compare as a composer with numerous other masters. Certainly, we realize that much of his music is great; we own and play many Tschaikowski records. But we scoff at Mr. Baggaley's claims that each of the last three symphonies and the two concertos is a "completely satisfying vessel of musical expression." Willard J. Hertz...
...ever allowed us to imagine; after all, it was written in the period of the Pathetique Sonata. And for the Sibelius' Second Symphony the writer has nothing but admiration for this full-blooded expression of lyric and dramatic poetry of music. There are passages which are peculiarly reminiscent of Tschaikowski but Sibelius always twists such leanings into sterner stuff. It is almost a double pleasure to hear this music after the frivolous and pretentious symphonies that we have listened to in the past months...
...Charles L. Whipple '35 Next on the program is "Dinner at Six-thirty", another skit, by Robert L.C. Rein'l '34. Accompanied by Edwin B. Marshall '34 at the piano, Richard B. Carloton '34 will play two xylophone solos, "Gypsy Mazurka" by Bohm, and "Chanson sans Paroles," by Tschaikowski. The program will be concluded by "Adams House Assizes, Michaelmas Sitting", presented by the Law School members of the House...