Word: westergaard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...
...music itself, it cleverly combines astute humor with unpretentious craftsmanship. Westergaard's sly use of leit-motives and his jazz-like rhythms supply an effective and sardonic commentary on the action. The seven-piece orchestra played the difficult score incisively...
...premier of "Charivari," an opera buffa by Peter Westergaard '53, will be the feature attraction in the Harvard Radcliffe Music Club's concert at Paine Hall at 8:30 tonight...
...Francis Boot Prize for 1952-53 was given to Peter T. Westergaard '53 for his "Song for Small Chorus and Three Wind Instruments on a text by John Skelton." The amount of the prize...
...Harvard undergraduates chosen were David Binder '53, of Minneapolis and Leverett House, History and Literature; Milan Kerno '54, of Parway Village, N.Y. and Lowell House, Government; Roger Moore '53, of Sherbourne, Mass. and Dunster House, History and Literature; and Peter Westergaard '54, of Belmont, Mass. and Eliot House, Music...