Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry W. Brown, Benjamin J. Cohn, William W. Freehling, John E. Gudeman, Lawrence M. Hartmann, James R. Lehrich, Eugene Lew, John Mendelsohn, Robert A. Meyers, John F. Post, Michael L. Rappaport, Frederick A. Rzewski, and Thomas K. Schwabacher were elected from Dunster House...
...JOHN MENDELSOHN, Dunster; House Committee; United Nations Council; PBH; House Tennis...
...libretto, by Prokofiev and his wife, Poetess Mira Mendelsohn, arbitrarily hacked great chunks out of the Tolstoy epic without ever linking them in true dramatic tension. Tolstoy's own brilliant literary counterpoint-in which he switched from peace to war scenes and back-was abandoned. All the peace was concentrated in the first part, all the war in the second, so that many of the figures in Part I suddenly dropped out of sight. Moreover, the libretto was narrative rather than dramatic, required whole passages of flat prose to be set to music, with the result that long stretches...
...winners of the Pierian Concerto Contest, David Hurwitz and Robert Freeman, both played with considerable technical skill. Hurwitz, in Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto, displayed accurate intonation and a fine singing tone. The richness of even his lower strings stood out clearly against the greater mass of the orchestra. Pianist Robert Freeman chose another chestnut, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This piece, with its viscous melody in the middle, is a musical hodge-podge. It serves mostly as a showpiece for pianists, and Freeman gave it a truly virtuoso performance. He showed a wily mastery of the keyboard...
...Harvard-Delhi Student Project last night named its officers for the coming year. William D. Faust '57 and John Mendelsohn '58 were elected co-chairmen, with Peter N. Stearns '57 and David G. Taylor '57 as secretaries, and Richard Rohrberg '58 as treasurer...