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...expected to play to half-filled houses," Allen says during a pre-concert chat in the band's dressing room, though perhaps it shouldn't have come as too great a surprise that a self-described "amateur" clarinetist who also happens to be a world-famous filmmaker can sell out halls like the Olympia, which recently canceled a concert by jazz great Ornette Coleman owing to low ticket sales. But if fame pulls in the crowds, Allen works hard to send them home happy. "I'm very conscious of the audience. It's not like Michael's Pub, where...
...accomplished to either prevent the transmission of HIV among boxers or to improve boxing's safety. Those who advocate HIV testing to the exclusion of other solutions take as automatic the premise that bleeding is inevitable in boxing. It is not. If professional boxing followed the lead of amateur boxing--by, most important, requiring headgear in all matches--bleeding would be virtually nil. Preventing bleeding is a better result than could ever be obtained by an HIV test. At the same time, headgear would improve numerous other woes of boxing, such as the safety of the participants. As we consider...
According to Ray Traietti, a staff assistant for the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex, the coffee house is ideal for amateur performers...
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF Virgil Thomson's impish opera Four Saints in Three Acts? Composed to a nonsense text by Gertrude Stein, originally sung by a mostly amateur all-black cast and set against a 15,000-sq.-ft. cyclorama backdrop made of cellophane, the work was a sensation at its Hartford, Connecticut, premiere in February 1934 and quickly moved to Broadway for a six-week run. Ever since, music lovers have been debating what, if anything, it means. "Pigeons, on the grass alas," indeed...
...killing was a lethal twist in the often eccentric and sometimes troubled life of Du Pont, who had transformed his 800-acre estate, Foxcatcher Farms, into a state-of-the-art sports center for amateur wrestlers, swimmers and pentathletes. "Eagle" du Pont (so called because few people could pronounce Eleuthere) is well known in U.S. wrestling circles as one of the sport's most generous backers-he has donated more than $3 million to the U.S. Olympic wrestling team. But he is also known as a controversial figure whose lavish treatment of athletes sometimes mocked the values of amateur sports...