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Founder & Producer of The Amphion...
...Amphion, a bi-weekly coffeehouse and jazz workshop, will open its 1977 season next month in Quincy House. The Quincy House Music Society, which runs The Amphion, would like to hear from people interested in organizing the shows, and from musicians who want to perform. Call Jennifer Cohen at 498-3145 for more information...
Friday night the Quincy House Music Society is sponsoring an informal jazz coffeehouse. The Amphion. Berklee piano student Peter Drescher is the featured act. Amphion's got its own coterie of student performers including Joe Reed, Hugh Burrow and Peter Fraenkel, who welcome you to sit in with them if you play a rhythm instrument. The Freebop Quintet is also on the bill. This week the session will meet in the Adams House JCR at 8. Thereafter Amphion will be held in the Quincy...
Today is Beethoven's 200th birthday. In the year he turned 175, the Harvard Glee Club heard the most important address ever delivered at one of its annual banquets. Entitled "Amphion's Lyre," the speech was given by the late Lucien Price '07, talking without notes. Price, the author of many books, was for almost half a century the chief editorialist of the Boston Globe. Beethoven starts his third century in a year plagued by war. Below are the concluding paragraphs of Price's remarks spoken 25 years ago in another time racked...
...live in a destructible world, yet somehow we must go on building. An ancient myth says that Amphion had a golden lyre, given him by Hermes, to whose strains the stones of Thebes rose one above another until the city walls were built. Not only must the city walls of world security, if possible, be built: some edifice of the spirit must be built also and built by us to house the soul of man in an epoch to come. That will be the labor of many brains and many hands, yet the spirit of man is not many...