Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Professor .XRtiu'R Mixmi., Cihairman of the Music Department, is an expert on the Illllsll' ol llach. Presently he is editing thoral works for the .Vette Brtclt-.lu.ygrtlu'. In his edited text Professor Mendel tries to capture the true quality of the music as determined by research into its original sources. Although he is interested chiefly in Nath, Professor Xlentlel docs devote some tinre to the study of Renaissance music. He is the coeditot' of the renowned lincll lfcrlrlzfr, a major contribution to the academic musical world. l'roI'essor Mendel also tleyotes tnuch of his tinle to mttsical organizations outside of l'rinceton. He has been a member of the lixecutiye lioartl of the .Xmerican Musicological Society. and for tnany years was conductor of the Cantata Singers of New York. M'illiam Shuhael Conant known composer. At the project of his life, a three act opera based on the conquest of Mexico. lt will be called Morilrfunta and will concentrate on the period from the landing of Cortes to the death of the Altec etnperor. The text, written in linglish by the famous Italian novelist and scholar Borgese, is poetic drama, and Professor' Sessions has had to cut large portions of the original script in order to fit it into normal opera time. The opera is scheduled to be completed by the end of the suirnner of 1961 and will be performed. probably abroad, in May of lfltii. Professor ROGLR Hl'Nl'lNfQlllX Slissloxs, l'rofessor of Mtlsic, is an internationally present titne he is working on the biggest 28 CARI. lvl-iIXRlllll, Director of Music at the Princeton Chapel, is a famed organist. He is known especially for his performances of Bach and is presently engaged in recording the complete organ works of Bach in twenty-five long-playing records. Mr. Heinrich pioneered the movement which advocated a retutn to the tvpe ot organ used by liach and his contemporaries. This movement has had a revolutionary effect on the building of organs in recent years. Mr. Mcinriclr also has a great interest in contemporary music, especially that of Schoenberg. As they leave Firestone Library just before closing time, many students like to stop in at the Chapel and hear Mr. Weinrich play' the organ. 'l'hese in- formal concerts are restful, and because they offer a pleasant escape from academic worries at the end of the day, they are greatly' appreciated. When one enters .Xrtist in Residence Hvnti Sot.oyiox's studio in the tower of Pyne .Xtlniinistration, he finds himself surrounded by sym- phonies of clanling color. Large canvases lean against the wall covered with beatitiful compositions of bright pigments arranged so that no color, no matter how bright, ever clashes with its neighbor: everything blends into the unified artistic whole. After some moments of study, the viewer begins to project himself into the paintings and they seem to attain a personal meaning for him. Only later does the visitor notice the quiet, unassuming tnan who is the creator of these works. Hyde Solomon seetns to prefer standing back, not saying much, so that his paintings can speak for him. Technically he is somewhere between abstract impressionisni and expressionistn. Best known for his land- scape abstractions, his major exhibition this year will be at the Poindexter Gallery' in New York.

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Soon lo he pulmlishetl liy the Nlrklillan Company in a series ol hooks deyoted to the prolessinns is .l1r'l1iIr'r!. 'l'his y'olume is heing written hy the llireetor ol' the Sehool ol' ryrchiteetttre at Princeton, Kontakt W, Nil,l.Xl't.Ill.lN, lu. In addition he is tnaking a plrotograpliie index ol' l're-Cioloinhian lll'l'llllClfllll'1ll and settlp- tural monuments found in South and Central .'xIllCl'lt'2l. l'I'UliCSSUli B1CL11llglllill is the professional atlvisor on 2ll'l'llllCCllll'C for the Associate Professor ot Sculpture josigtfti BROWN is wending his way' across Europe and ,Xsia on a six- tuonth iourney sponsored hy the State Departnrent. Professor l5rown's fine statues and statuettes ol athletes in action. seyeral of which can he seen as trophies in tlte Dillon Gym loliby. hrought him to the attention of the goyernment. which is haying him do statues and hnsts ol numer- ous foreign athletes and statesmen. Not content merely to portray' athletes, l'rol'essor llrown has put his liaclcgrotitul as a professional hoxet to good use eoaehing hoxing at l,l'illCClUll, His interest ill chil- dren linings him to the l'rineeton Summer Clamp each year :tml has led him to try' his hand at designing fascinating, even artistic, play- ground equipment. New York Port ,xlllllOl'lly'. lle was in eltarge ol' the competition t held to choose the designer ol the new terminal htnltltng at ldlewild International .Xirport. llis primary' lield is Pl'Cli1llJl'lClllCLl 2ll'C'llllCi'llIl'C. Dr. Rrxssityik yy. Irii. C.ltairman ot the Department of ,Xrt and ,Xrel1aeology. retttrtied to the llllllifllill faculty in FCl?l'lllil'y of 19515 as the Howard Clroshy Butler Nletnorial l'rot'essor of the History of .yrtliiteeture alter spending twenty'-liye years at other edueational instittttions. Dr. Iree, on leaye ot' ahsenee during the hrst term, is in the process ot' writing a hook concerning the Since 1955. Professor ol' Classical .Xreliaeoiogy liiuis SJOQYISI has alternated hetween leaching' duties and directing the Princeton .yrcliaeological lixpeclition to Sicily along with l'rot'essor Ricliarcl Stillwell. the latter ot' thest two tasks is an especially' familiar one tor l'l'OliCSSOl SUIUQNISI, who seryed in a sitnilar capacity lot a Sweclish expedition. 'l he present project is an attempt to trace the development ot' a typical Greek town trout the sixth to the second century ll. ll. and is expected to shed significant 7 light on the Hellenit' eiyililatinn. l rotessor S-ioqyist, one nl the lew classical areltaeologists lelt. has pointed out: Ulixcayatioiis are the prinripal means of I'Cl'OllSlI'lll'llllg and reinterpreting the past. Without them. artliaeology and seholatship in the art. history. and language ol' antiquity would heconte unproduetiye, stereotyped, and SlllJCI'iltllll.i influence ot' the Italian poet 'lortiuato 'lasso on the history' of painting. It is a study' ot' the cirtumstantes arising when a great poem is written and suhsequently' depirtecl in paintings. His lield ot' special interest is the history of painting in linrope from the sixteenth century until the eighteenth l'Cllllll'y', including the Renaissanee. Klannerist. and llaroque periods.

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I'r'ol'essor 'l'. Ct'y'r.i-.rc Yotixrs ol' the llepartrnent of Oriental Studies is currently' working on a book eoneertred with the appraisal ol' l'nited States poliey in Iran in the period between the Seeond World Xrar and the present. Professor Young has deyoted a large portion ol' his career to promoting Near I-'astern and lslanric sttrdies in l,rirrt'eton and in other colleges throughout the nation. He is also aetiye in organizing the latilities ol' the l'niy'ersity lor the teac'lrir'g ol' Near liastern languages during the eonrirrg strrurner. l'nder l't'ol'eSs0r Young and his prederessor, Dr. Hitti, I'rint'eton has become the renter' in .Xrneriea for studying the lslanrie world. Cilassits l'rol'essor tLroRt,r-' liersr r. llrczrmokrrr has long been interested in Greek and especially l.atin literature. For seyeral years he served as Prolessor-irr-elrarge ol the Sununer School ol the .Xrnerican .Xtraclerny in Rorue, and in 1956 he was eletited President ol' the .Xnrerican Philologieal Sotiety: llaring' rerently' published 'l'l1e Xrtlztrv' of lfomrnl Comezly' and hffllfllllllf l,Illfl'lill.Y nur! l'roj1orlior1.y in l'irgil's .lr'n1'i1l, he has ttrrnetl to tr project which will tlernonstrtrte the possible irrlluence ol' Sanskrit epic' on the .lr'1n'itl, Now in his l'orty-lirst year with the l'rriy'ersity', l'roI'essor' lluckworth is currently leeltrrirrg courses in Ronran tlranra. Yirgil, and Horace. Wnrrxr-.y lrxxtxes Uyrrs, .Xndreyr lflenring West l'r-olessor ol Cllassirs. his a distirrggtrislred scholar who CllllJll1lSllC5 that 'there is no aetiyity in a urrirersity' which does not lraye its lrtrruanitarian aspeitsf' .X graclrratie ol Princeton, l'rol'essor Oates was largely responsible lor the establishtnent ol l'rint'e- . tons Lountttl ol the llurnanities in limit. He was also the prime initiator ol' the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1'r'ograrn wlrich sponsors students interested in a career in college teaching. An authority in the lields of Greek drarna and ancient philosophy, Prolessor Oates teaches courses on l'lato and ,Xr'lstotle. and is a pelerrrrtal layortte preteptor and let'- turer arnong senior students. sf Xlusgrare Professor ol' l.atirr atrd former Dean of the College. Classics l'rot'essor Ifruxtzls R. B. KQUIJOLPIIIN is a well-known lecturer in seyeral Greek and Roman literature courses. He ttornbines a warnr personality with the acadernie diligence and drire ol' a wellslauown scholar. Whether he is talking to a student itr his olliee or delving through aneient rnyths, Professor' Godolphin always seems interested and concerned with what is bel'or'e hitn, Hoping to aelrieye a more poetic presentation ol' aneient nrvths, Dr. Godolphin is t'ut'rently' editing an anthology' of classical tnytlrs told by' Greek and Roman poets. Iiditor ol' two other eolleetiorrs. flu' Greek Hl.yltJl'lIlII.k and The Lnlin Poets, he iirrtls great interest in the sinrilarity ot' ant-ient and modern authors. n.