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...musical family that we have at the Gewandhaus I miss somehow. I want the musicians to have the feeling that they are at home, that they are playing together, that they are at the musical center of that big city." After seeing the Leipzig orchestra through its 250th birthday in 1993-94, Masur is expected to make New York his principal base...
...SHOW also attempted to tell the history of the United States as it related to Harvard (and vice-versa) from the College's inception in 1636. Yet it seems, from the show's chronology, that nothing much happened between 1776 and Harvard's 250th birthday in 1886 except for the one Emerson selection that Lithgow read...
Surely there are few events, apart from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...
...alums and luminaries who will gather in Quincentenary Theater should leave thinking that Harvard Yard is some verdant oasis of veritas. There is something important to be learned from this week's gala affair, especially as it comes on the heels of the even larger Statue of Liberty 250th birthday celebration...
Responding to the pressure, the seven-man governing Corporation early last October broke with the tradition and decided it would not confer honorary degrees, Harvard's highest honor, at the 350th as they had at the 300th and the 250th anniversary celebrations. One administrator called the decision "the only graceful way out" of a confrontation with the Harvard community...