Word: agonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agon of Henry Fordyce, Jr. took place in the leafy shadow of the world tree in the Harkness Commons Dining room, where the flower of the graduate schools daily acquires its breakfast...
...Henry had liked coffee for breakfast, there would have been no agon. If not for his fateful passion for fruit juice, Harkness Commons would never have been darkened by the dragon-wing of history. Henry's greatness was thrust upon him. All he wished to do was to exchange his breakfast coffee (his legal right by contract) for a second fruit juice...
...week, before leaving New York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier (1911), romantic work by the same composer. "This," she asked a companion, "is the same Stravinsky who wrote Petrouchka...
Admired Rival. Craft has become so familiar with Stravinsky's musical thinking (he meets with him twice a day) that he has conducted the first performances of works such as Agon and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas. Some day he hopes to write a comprehensive book about Stravinsky, "this incredibly fresh man." But, he adds, "It is not yet time; he is not finished...
...next evening, Charles Munch will conduct the BSO in a performance of Stravinsky's "Agon;" Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and "La Mer," by Debussy...