Word: albert
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Historial Study A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: Japan," taught by Professor of Japanese History Albert M. Craig and Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, may also hold a lottery. Rosovsky said the decision will depend on how many extra section leaders can be found...
Coincidentally, two pieces inspired by Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, were premiered a week apart and had practically the same name. Toru Takemitsu's rippling Riverrun (1984) was given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor...
...five, Albert's 40-minute, four-movement symphony was the best, as much for what it represented as for its considerable technical accomplishment. A frank invocation of the spirits of Mahler, Stravinsky and Sibelius in its late romantic thematic materials, its grandiose orchestration and its heroic reach, RiverRun would probably have been laughed off the stage 20 years ago by Albert's colleagues as impossibly regressive. If anything, the grand-gestured RiverRun is not enough of a throwback, bashfully pulling back at crucial moments as though Albert, 43, did not fully trust his expansive instincts. The conservative spirit is scarcely...
However, these views reflected the endless tension between conservative and liberal interpretations of the Constitution. Teachers and principals were more concerned with the decision's effect on day-to-day discipline in the schools. A jubilant Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said of the ruling, "It sends a message to students that school buildings are . . . off premises to troublemakers." Concluded Piscataway Principal Koch: "The rights we have had have been clarified and justified...
...Harvard Medical School professor. Albert M. Galaburda researching brain abnormalities makes nationwide headlines when he requests the brain of suspected murderer-rapist, who had died two weeks earlier of a self inflicted gunshot wound...