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Music
Haggin, B. H. | July 25, 1953 issue

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The article discusses performing arts. The propagandist for contemporary music complains that reverence for the classics keeps the public from listening to the music of its own time, and quotes similar statements from the address by performer E. J. Dent on the occasion of his receiving an honorary doctorate from Harvard University in 1936. Harvard was honoring the scrupulous scholar of the books on opera; but on the public's attitude to new music, Dent tossed around myths and fantasies that should have led Harvard to demand the return of its doctorate.

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MUSIC; MUSICIANS; DENT, E. J.; ARTS; PERFORMING arts; ART in music
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