Word: francke
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While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...
Bill Dechard, who has been starring on defense all year, was moved up to secondstring attacking quarterback behind Franck Matrango yesterday. Teaming with Matrango were John Sullivan, Mell Massucco and Bob Doyle and with Dechard, Angelo Maglio, Bobby Farrell and Kack Reader...
Able, splenetic Sir Thomas Beecham had once disdained the Scots as "damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue...
Most of the University's star performers came on stage during the evening. Malcolm H. Holmes '28 led the orchestra through a series of overtures and encores. Then G. Wallace Woodworth '24 appeared with Karl Kohn '48 to play Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra. Kohn is without a doubt one of the finest musicians in the University, and anyone who didn't appreciate his talent before Monday night certainly recognized it after his composed and accurate performance...
Soloist for the evening is Karl Kohn '48, who will perform Franck's, "Symphonic Variations" for piano and orchestra. Kohn and Andrew M. Heath, Jr. '50 will act as accompanists for the Glee Club...