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Friday, 10:30 o'clock-Meeting in Sanders Theatre; chairman, Alfred Frankenstein. "The Critiest Nature of a Work of Art"-Edgar Wind; "The Performer as Critle"-Olga Samaroff; "The Art of Judging Music". Virgil Thomson 4:00 o'clock. Meeting for discussion of papers read at the morning session. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Choral Music in Memorial Church: The Collegiate Chorale, Robert Shaw, Conductor; New compositions: Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning" for chorus a cappela and mezzo soprano solo; Paul Hindemith, "Apparebit Repentino Dies" for chorus and 11 brass instruments; G. Francesco Malipiero, "La Terra" from Virgil...
Between the wars the Club went its informal way reaching peaks of furious activity when it numbered men like Virgil Thomson '22 and Leonard Bernstein '39 in its midst and at other times lapsing into sociable lethargy. For a while many of the meetings were held in the home of Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music and then moving spirit of the club...
Tonight's selections include works by Aaron Copland, Leroy Robertson, Richard Franko Goldman, Roy Harris, Roger Sessions, Bela Bartok, and Zolton Kodaly. Also featured will be "improvisation," by Walter Piston '24, professor of Music, and Two Etudes by Virgil Thomson...
...years, U.S. composers have crossed the Atlantic to study with austere Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau's American Conservatory. Among them: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson. Another Boulanger alumnus, Marc Blitzstein, was recently commissioned by Boston's Serge Koussevitzky to write an opera. Last week Teacher Boulanger made news in her own way-quietly...
...Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...