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...went as Conductor Milton Katims and the Seattle Symphony brought culture to the arctic climes of the 49th state, where music normally comes only from records, radio, TV or walrus-skin drums. Never before had any major orchestra visited the Alaskan bush or the treeless tundra. Never before, in all probability, had any orchestra's itinerary been such a travel agent's nightmare-covering 11,000 miles by plane, boat, bus and snowmobile to give 36 concerts in six days. The Seattleites were able to do so by splitting up, for much of the tour, into seven chamber...
Getting Couth. Meanwhile, at the Arctic port of Barrow, a woodwind quintet entertained 300 schoolchildren with a variety of pieces ranging from Beethoven to Pop Goes the Weasel. In the southeast part of the state, Associate Conductor Joseph Levine took another string ensemble on a 130-mile ferry ride through the Inside Passage to reach Ketchikan for a concert in the local high school. One rapt member of their audience was the first mate on their ferry boat, Gene Chaffin, who at 35 was attending his first concert. "I thought it would be very formal and boring...
Glasgow in the late 1950s to work for the Hudson's Bay Company above the Arctic Circle, has its moments of old-style adventure and anthropological insight. The author is brisk, precise, modest as he tells about fighting with mean Eskimos, cajoling lazy Eskimos, foiling marriage-minded Eskimos and learning how to carve an igloo with a snow knife. Eskimos, it appears, have 33 distinct words to describe snow in various conditions from soft to firmish, "but not quite firm enough to build a snow-house." There is only one Eskimo word for all the 150 different kinds...
...field in his own fearful event, the knuckle hop, by hopping 40 ft. on his toes and knuckles. Other such tests of mettle include the finger pull (two combatants locking middle fingers and pulling until one hollers uncle) and the ear pull, in which the toughest ears in the Arctic are wound with cord and pitted against each other...
Botch. The Arctic Games were inspired by the abysmal performances of the athletes from the Yukon and Northwest Territories in conventional sports at the Canada Winter Games held in Quebec City in 1967. Says Lou LeFaive, director of Sports Canada: "The idea was to provide a level of competition that would enable Northerners to develop skills at a rate more compatible with that in the South." Native events were included...