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Nearly as impressive was Karl Kohn's The Red Cockatoo (1954), based on three Chinese poems of extraordinary beauty. Lime Woollen, Kohn understands how to emphasize a world without a shout from the singers or an unnecessary consonance. The percussive piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem...
Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Karl G. Kohn '48, teaching fellow in Music, and the Rev. Russell Woollen have written prices that will occupy a prominent place in the concert...
...Orleans WOOLLEN H. WALSHE...
...village of Amecameca, the Indians drew their coarse woollen ponchos tight against the night air and counted the bodies as they were brought down the mountain-four men and two girls, the highest toll for a single mountain-climbing accident in Mexican history...
John Davison's Four Songs to Poems by George Herbert might have made a better impression had they been transposed. Although Jean Lunn '55 had sung Father Woollen's songs well, the Davison selections lay mostly in her weak upper-middle range; breathy tone lent little conviction to his spare melodic lines...