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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James B. Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard (picture at the right) will be the featured speaker this evening at the "Annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration," to be held today and tomorrow. The conference theme is "Another Look at The Secondary School," and Mr. Conant will discuss "What...
This was typical of his care and taste throughout the work. Never once did he say to his confreres, "See what a big noise I can make. Let's see you try to match it." He never strayed from a perfect sense of balance and ensemble. And this had the...
There is plenty that is pure Brahms in this work, such as the perfect balance between the Romantic material and its Classical treatment; the special textures and spacings in the scoring; and the frequent rhythmical and metrical subtleties. And idea after idea is characterized by what the Germans call "Schwung...
But it was the supreme quality of the Beethoven and Brahms works, and the superb artistry with which they were performed that affected one so deeply. A final tribute is that, inordinately difficult as both works are, these artists played with such apparent effortlessness that one left with the glowing...
It's hard to say what makes an audience respond to a reading. Some of the most success works were the rather dramatic ones--often a brief introduction explaining the situation helped. Kunitz, especially, came off best in poems like "The Dragonfly," "The War Against the Trees," or "The Thief...