Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...included selections from Weill's later works written for the Broadway stage-Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus. But what the crowd had turned out to hear was a concert version of the Marc Blitzstein adaptation of Threepenny Opera, which last week marked its 1,200th performance at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Dressed in a royal blue frock, her carroty blonde hair drawn loosely back with combs, Lenya appeared in the role she created in Berlin in 1928 and made famous-that of Jenny, the bitter, dream-haunted London prostitute...
...love for Bach finally brought him out of retirement. In 1950, on the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, Violinist Alexander Schneider, a Casals protege, persuaded El Maestro to take part in a Bach festival in Prades. From all over the world famed soloists-Joseph Szigeti. Isaac Stern. Rudolf Serkin-poured into the village on the slopes of the Pyrenees to play with the man Fritz Kreisler had called "the best who draws...
This major academic turn-about contributes to a general Dartmouth program of improvements, leading up to the 200th Anniversary of the college in 1969. President Dickey intends Dartmouth by then to occupy the primary place in American education...
According to Dickey the aim is to enable the college to "celebrate Dartmouth's 200th anniversay in 1969 by using the years between now and then to bring everything about Dartmouth--from her purpose to her performance--to pre-eminence...
Dickey hopes that the drive will increase Dartmouth's annual income by $3 million per year by the 200th anniversary...