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...Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories of educational, research and administrative activities on the other. In the galleries...
...home again, for a night at least. Or so they seemed to be singing, brothers and sisters. A Who's Who of pop music was onstage at the Apollo Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart...
From the age of vaudeville to the eve of the age of music videos, the white- owned Apollo nurtured black music. When the Beatles, on their first visit to the U.S., were asked what they wanted to see, No. 1 on their list was the Apollo. But after blacks broke into the mainstream and could play larger houses for larger fees, the Apollo declined. In 1976 it closed and lapsed into the realm of remembrance, like vaudeville at the Palace or P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas at the Hippodrome. Now it has been opened again by black businessmen, led by former...
...perform at the theater again, Stevie Wonder said, "I don't know." LaBelle warned of the need for sacrifice: "If we let our egos stay behind and let our pocketbooks stay empty for a while and just go do things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will survive." Meanwhile, for that night, the dream and the memory and the music drowned out the murmurs of caution. And one onlooker who had been there for all the glory times judged this perhaps the grandest. Said Francis ("Doll") Thomas, 91, an electrician at the theater since 1933: "This...
...remember those exciting early days of the U.S. space program? Dieter Kolff and his fellow scientists leading America's effort to catch up with the Soviets and put a man into orbit. Astronaut John Pope making his spectacular walk in space. And, of course, that historic Apollo landing on the dark side of the moon and its terrifying brush with disaster...