Word: alto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful portrait" of her brother Alex...
Soloists will include Jean Lunn '55, soprano, Valentine Sobalvarro, alto, Robert J. Gartside 1G, tenor, and Robert M. Simon '55, bass. Claudio Spies, instructor of Music, will conduct the orchestra...
...relationship. He misconceived some musical details as well. Instead of grouping the dotted rhythms of the overture in melodic phrases, he chopped them into monotonous two note fragments. Handel marked Larghetto the sombre People that walked in darkness; Patterson whipped it to an inappropriate speed. He also rushed the alto's Oh Thou that tellest good tidings, and consequently the choral repetition lacked contrast...
...Stanford University decided to move its medical school from San Francisco, where real estate and operating costs come high, to the Palo Alto campus down the peninsula. Population has grown fast around Palo Alto, insuring plenty of patients for students to observe in the university hospital...
...Stanford University's $15 million, 60-acre Palo Alto, Calif, project, where three San Francisco department stores (The Emporium, I. Magnin and Roos Brothers) will build branches...