Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe Grant-in-aid chairman Elizabeth Tucker '52 will wait until after tonight's performance to decide if there will be a second showing of the Annex's annual production. "Drumbeats and Song" on Monday, it was learned yesterday...
Checking the ballots yesterday, Elizabeth Tucker '52 discovered a discrepancy in presidential point totals which gave two more second place votes and one more first place vote to Gilmore and one extra first place vote to Barrow. This makes a difference of a 14 point lead by Miss Barrow over Miss Gilmore rather than the originally stated 18 points...
...Tucker began by reading part of Hindemith's preface to the 1948 revision of Das Marienlaben. With the aid of a diagram and a dozen pages of technical discussion, the composer points out how this version differs from the original 1923 score. The improvements resulted in a more unified piece, and each of the fifteen songs included were fashioned into parts that together produce an integrated and carefully calculated effect. For instance, the first and seventh songs (Birth of Mary and Birth of Christ) use the same melodic and harmonic material, thus demonstrating the similarity between the two events...
...piano part in this song-cycle is more than a simple accompaniment. According to Hindemith, its relation to the voice is of great importance in achieving the effect that he wished to attain. Mr. Tucker's technique and interpretive insight was in every way equal to Miss Curtin's singing...
...moving piece of music, then, superbly performed. However, its worth cannot be grasped immediately, and one example of its many novelties will suffice to explain why. Described in a portion of the 1948 preface which Mr. Tucker did not read is Hindemith's use of tonalities, instead of themes, as lietmotivs. Thus, the key of B represents Mary, while E symbolizes Christ. This, certainly not evident at first hearing, is just another indication that Das Marienlaben--despite its immediate impressiveness--must be heard many times before it can be fully appreciated...