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...Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written...
...associate professor of Greek and Latin and of History. In addition to the professors, there are many exceptionally competent and highly enjoyable members of the Society of Fellows who assist in the larger courses, such as John Moore '38, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, whose sections in Virgil were one of the high points of the last year for Latin students, concentrators and non-concentrators alike...
Between the wars the Club went its informal way reaching peaks of furious activity when it numbered men like Virgil Thomson '22 and Leonard Bernstein '39 in its midst and at other times lapsing into sociable lethargy. For a while many of the meetings were held in the home of Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music and then moving spirit of the club...
Tonight's selections include works by Aaron Copland, Leroy Robertson, Richard Franko Goldman, Roy Harris, Roger Sessions, Bela Bartok, and Zolton Kodaly. Also featured will be "improvisation," by Walter Piston '24, professor of Music, and Two Etudes by Virgil Thomson...
...years, U.S. composers have crossed the Atlantic to study with austere Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau's American Conservatory. Among them: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson. Another Boulanger alumnus, Marc Blitzstein, was recently commissioned by Boston's Serge Koussevitzky to write an opera. Last week Teacher Boulanger made news in her own way-quietly...