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...memorial service for the later Walter Piston, Naumburg Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Sanders Theater. The service will include performances of several pieces composed by Piston...
...DEATH of Walter Piston, Naumberg Professor of Music Emeritus and one of America's leading twentieth century composers, represents a great loss to contemporary music itself, but is a particular sadness for the Harvard music community, which he influenced and enhanced during his illustrious 34 continuous years of teaching in the department...
...Piston's music has been played by virtually every orchestra here and abroad, and his definitive textbooks have influenced two generations of musical thought. But along with his musical integrity and insight, he is remembered by his colleagues and proteges at his alma mater for his sense of humor and good feeling toward his work and students. Numbered among these students who later became prominent figures in music are Leonard Bernstein, Gunther Schuller, and Elliot Carter...
...terms of space, Concorde seems like a throwback to the cramped piston age. "Mind your head," warned the steward as I boarded and made my way to my seat in the long cigar-tube fuselage. If your seat is near one of the tiny windows, you notice the sharp curvature of the fuselage. The reading light is close to your head. In supersonic flight, the windows warm up and the cabin tends to get a bit stuffy...
Speed skaters hate the strong midday sun. Its rays can heat-and slow-the surface of the ice and cost racers precious hundredths of a second. Victory literally can hang on a passing cloud. It also depends on technique. Speed is generated by the piston power of the leg; the deeper the racing crouch the greater distance the piston can extend. Arms play no part, except on the turns, when racers swing them metronomically to develop what they call "the slingshot" effect. Skates are a streamlined amalgam of 16-in. blades and ankle-high boots of soft kangaroo leather...