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Joseph Szigeti

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(Reprinted from the Harvard Crimson, Feb. 22, 1963. Mr. Szigeti will lecture on his recordings with Bartok in Paine Hall


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Saint Pelagia

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A month ago I attacked the student opera The Cursed Dauncers for its facile use of medieval setting. The Conversion


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Student Music

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The management of this concert showed some worthwhile innovations. Several of the performers were musicians hired for the occasion, and


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Israel in Egypt

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A Handel oratorio is almost too much fun; it's just so easy to bellow out that "good old Handel," the


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The Cursed Daunsers

By William A. Weber  • 

Some simple facts about The Cursed Daunsers' presentation at the Loeb are worth acclaim in themselves. The opera presents the


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Beethoven and Cage

By William A. Weber  • 

The program which Adams House presented on Wednesday night seemed at the start totally miscellaneous. The Beethoven Violin Sonata, Op.96,


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Schrade Discusses Fate In Development of Opera

By William A. Weber  • 

Baroque opera laid the ground for all music drama that was to follow it, contended Leo Schrade at his fourth


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Rebirth of Music Drama, Tragedy Was Limited, Schrade Maintains

By William A. Weber  • 

"Is the story of the rebirth of the music drama that of the miscarriage of tragedy?" Leo Schrade asked at


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Schrade Describes Role of 'Daemon' in Tragedy

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"The affinity of the tragic and the daemonic is the chisel with which to cut in relief the face of


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Henry Swoboda

By William A. Weber  • 

As Henry Swoboda, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, greets you, he shoots out his baton hand with disarming

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