Word: aarons
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Among other things, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg called for camels, donkeys, onstage animal butchery and sex orgies with naked virgins to complement his twelve-tone melodies in 1932's Moses and Aaron. Schoenberg himself once said that the opera is "undoable," but now a plucky band of Britons led by Royal Shakespeare Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors...
With all those fans waiting in Atlanta, baseball's Braves are sadly losing both money and prestige in Milwaukee. Powered by such sluggers as Eddie Mathews, Joe Torre and Hank Aaron, the Braves were only 2½ games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers last week and tasting World Series. Milwaukee couldn't care less. Attendance has fallen as low as 913 people at one game, and in contrast to the mid-1950's when Milwaukee packed in 2,000,000 fans a year, the total this year after 22 dates is only...
...Aaron Copland was presented with the Harvard Glee Club Medal by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation at its annual dinner last night. He shared the prize with Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, Emeritus...
...program was in Harvard's best "radical intellectual" tradition. Of the eight compositions listed only one, the Vadres March of Johannes Hanssen, dated from the nineteenth century. The remaining seven ranged from Ralph Vaughn William's Folk Song Suite, written about 1920, to the just-completed Emblems of Aaron Copland...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only major civil rights group with local chapters throughout the South. The organization relies on these, rather than on paid staff members; in Mississippi, for example, it has been Aaron Henry, the president of the state NAACP chapters, not Charles Evers, the NAACP's Mississippi field secretary, who has really led the organization...