Word: vaughns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Sogg '52, stole the show in the first B.S.O. performance of Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune. This is the same work that created such a tremendous impression when played by Harvard and Radcliffe musicians in Sanders Theatre last month. Sogg handled the pyrotechnics of the piano part with understanding and showmanship. He didn't sound quite as exciting as he did last month, but that might have been due to the more vital orchestral accompaniment, or to the less brilliant tone of the Baldwin piano. The Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard Glee Club were perfect...
...removed from the broadly lyrical writing of the most popular operas. There is a restraint here that makes its sacred quality all the more effective. The chorus sang with great delicacy, but its usually perfect timing was just a shade off. Then came five British folk songs, arranged by Vaughn Williams. The chorus sang them just as well as in its recent Vaughn Williams concert--there can be no higher praise...
...General Harry H. Vaughn...
...Vaughn Flannery did more than dream about it. Ten years ago, at 43, he threw up his job as art director (and partner) of Manhattan's booming Young & Rubicam, and hit out for the Maryland horse country. Scoffing friends predicted that he would soon be back at the old Manhattan treadmill. He was back last week, but not on a treadmill: a big 57th Street gallery was showing 31 of Vaughn Flannery's coolly colored paintings of horses and racing scenes, and mighty nice they were...
...house where an easel and the American Stud Book were both handy. His father, a Kentuckian, remembered his son's birth as the year when Plaudit won the Kentucky Derby (1898). Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery, "I get all the free models I want...