Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel blue sky, the Glee Club ducked out from Sever 11 last night to line Widener's steps for the first of its two Yard Concerts. Taking their cur from the 7 o'clock chapel bell, the songsters led off with the Harvard Hymn, strayed from there through Virgil Thomson and Handel, and then chorused home with a brace of football songs, abetted--if not too precisely-- by the audience...
...cities the Communists have taken over through their victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo...
...succeeding speeches, Olga Samaroff, musical educator, critic, and pianist, looked at criticism from the point of view of the performer, while Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald-Tribune's critic, did "The Art of Judging Music...
...second concert of the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism offered last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang...
Malipiero's "La Terra," also in Latin, is Virgil in his loveliest pastoral vein and the Venetian master at his sweetest. All is suave and dreamy, with constant rhythmic complexities and a wealth of melody and grace that suggest the careless abundance of nature itself. Perhaps it is over-dreamy, for even the storm scene is mild; but the peaceful pastoral tone has rarely been achieved in our time with such expressive variety or with such sustained musical interest. "La Terra" is more than a distinguished piece of work. It is original, interesting, expressive, and beautiful...