Earthrise / Ross Lee Finney. 1978.
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Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997
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Originally composed as the slow movement of Sonata, for cello and piano; transcribed for string orchestra, 1940 at the request of Dmitri Mitropoulos. First performance by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis, Apr. 4, 1941, Dmitri Mitropoulos (to whom the work is dedicated) conducting--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Slow piece for string orchestra / Ross Lee Finney. 1940. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51793878 Commissioned...
Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993
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Physician, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Lewis Thomas : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735919 Dr. Thomas served as professor of pathology (1954-1969) at New York University and dean (1971-1973) of Yale's School of Medicine--among other posts--before becoming president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1973. He is probably best known to the public from his column in THE NEW ENGLAND ...
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and philosopher, was born May 1, 1881, at Sarcenat, in the Dept. of Puy de Dôin, France, and educated at the College of Mongréin Villefranche-sur-Saô. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1899 at Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1911. From 1912-1914 he studied paleontology under Marcellin Boule in Paris. After a period of teaching in Cairo, service in World War I as a stretcher-bearer, and further teaching at the Institut catho...
