Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Featuring today's half of the symposium are talks by Virgil Thomson and Olga Samaroff at 10:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre and a cheral concert at 6:30 o'clock this evening in Memorial Church...
About 150 seats also are left for each of the five speaking sessions and discussions, which will include speeches by E. M. Forster, British critic and author, Virgil Thomson '22, the New York Herald Tribune's critic-composer, and Paul H. Lang, author, and professor of music at Columbia...
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...
...Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written...
...associate professor of Greek and Latin and of History. In addition to the professors, there are many exceptionally competent and highly enjoyable members of the Society of Fellows who assist in the larger courses, such as John Moore '38, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, whose sections in Virgil were one of the high points of the last year for Latin students, concentrators and non-concentrators alike...