Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When director James Walker came to Harvard four years ago the Dartmouth concert was a disreputable collection of hack marches, cliched tone poems and loud football songs. Gradually, however, he has made the event into more than a pep rally; last night's program was thoroughty musical in both content and performance...
...previous Dartmouth concerts, band members tolerated, but never really enjoyed, the serious music Walker forced on the program. Last night they relished it, and even the audience, used to musical pap, accepted the transformation...
Paul Fauchet's Symphony in B-Flat was the major presentation of the evening, and despite some problems in execution, the performance justified Walker's decision to revive this little known composition. Though uneven, lacking in cohesion, and at times rambling, the symphony has some memorably melodic and dynamic passages...
...Under Walker's prodding baton the band resisted the temptation to dissipate in the quiet passages and executed phases lyrically and cleanly. But while carefully molding individual sections of the work, Walker and the band could not overcome the problem of disunity inherent in the score. The "Overture" sounded like two separate compositions, and the three other movements seemed to have been written by different composers...
...Walker culminated an 80-yard march on a 15-yard touchdown run around right end which buried the Elephants in the final quarter...