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Come 1988, Harvard hosted Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez at the Commencement exercises. Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his successful efforts at diplomacy in Central America.
During the speech, Arias spoke about his hopes for Central America, saying, "We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to...
Arias, who considers former U.S. President John F. Kennedy '40 to be his idol, is a member of the wealthiest coffee trading family in Costa Rica. He further urged his audience to take control of their world by saying, "You will live most of your lives in the next century...
In his most flexible score to date, Adams has erected huge choral pillars to frame the action and provide context. In between, he spins out long, shimmering arias whose sinuous lines deny the listener the security of a conventional verse-chorus-verse structure. Once a card carrying minimalist, the composer...
Leppard's lively performance of the "Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by...