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...preludes will be performed at Harvard on April 18 as part of 4 special week long University festival commemorating Bach's 300th birthday...
Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff discovered the previously overlooked organ chorale preludes while doing research for a Bach compendium to be presented at a festival and scholarly conference honoring the composer's 300th birthday this spring in East Germany...
...Guinness Book of World Records lists him as America's most prolific author. For the time being, Isaac Asimov is in no danger of losing his title. The Russian-born writer was in New York City last week to celebrate the publication of his 300th volume, named, appropriately enough, Opus 300. An anthology of his previous 99, the tome covers a galaxy of topics, including the Moral Majority, mysteries, robots, computers, astronomy, physics, genetics, and erotic limericks, to name just a few. Asimov, 64, is happy to share the secret of his industry: "The process of writing...
...this was the year in which Ronald Reagan was re-elected to the White House, but those with a broader historical perspective have other things to commemorate. Like the 400th anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh's first colony in the New World, the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the 200th anniversary of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, the 100th anniversary of the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 50th anniversary of Muzak. Muzak? Wouldn't that be like celebrating the first broadcast singing commercial...
...appointment of his Oxford-educated daughter Lyudmila Zhivkova as head of the committee for culture in 1975, Zhivkov sought to bolster national identity and pride, reportedly to the displeasure of the Kremlin. It was Lyudmila, for instance, who was the guiding force behind the 1981 celebrations of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. Halfway through the anniversary year, however, Lyudmila died at age 38 of a brain hemorrhage. Since her death, no one else has emerged as a staunch crusader for Bulgarian nationalism...