Word: violas
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When we arrived, late, at the Exeter Theatre, we explained to the janitor and subsequently to Viola Berlin that we were from Harvard and had come to the movie and the long-awaited critics luncheon. "Oh, you're the critics?" We grinned. Viola Berlin turned to my companion who was a bear masquerading as a CRIMSON editor, and asked, "What do you do on the CRIMSON?" He sniggered...
After the movie, which was about the sea, we gathered downstairs with the other critics. Soon Viola Berlin, Mr. Schroeder of the Oceanographic Institute, the bear, and I were put in a car. Mr. Ellis Gordon drove us to the Harvard Club...
...there appeared such typical Vaughan Williams features as chordal parallelism; but mixed in with them were wonderful wailing appoggiaturas and, above all non-Western melodic lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which suffused the whole with a subtle, intoxicating exoticism. An important role went to a solo viola, superbly played by Jean Comstock, which expressed itself in a manner always wistful and often melancholy. Vaughan Williams inserted before each section in his manuscript brief verses from the Song of Solomon; and Schmidt hit on the bright idea of having Kenneth Costin narrate these at the appropriate spots...
...modern flute, Brown demonstrated his versatility by performing with consummate skill on four diverse sizes of recorder as well as on an old wooden cross flute--all of which have utterly different playing techniques from the modern flute. The other musicians were Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and lute...
Authentic Renaissance and Baroque instruments will perform the works of these composers. Performers for the concert are Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and Renaissance lute; Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Howard Brown '51, cross flute and recorders...