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That view is borne out by recent graduates such as Adina Astor '93, who is currently serving as in two-year business analyst program at a general management consulting firm, while she ponders future academic work...
...There's something about the KRONOS QUARTET that has long made musical purists uneasy. If it's not the musicians' a la mode fashion statements, it's their extravagantly eclectic repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother...
...think it's funny, but it's kind of a pain in the neck," said Independent President Adina R. Astor...
...Oxford, Trott made several influential friends, including intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin, David Astor, son of Lady Astor, and several Labour Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, in these and other friendships which Trott made later in the 1930s, he showed a lack of foresight which limited his influence in England during Churchill's administration...
...alternative "Club Nowhere." Later they moved indoors to various performance spaces in Manhattan. They created Tubes (named for the industrial tubing that snakes along the theater walls, hangs from the ceiling and laps up onstage) in early 1991 for the La MaMa experimental theater, then restaged it at the Astor Place Theater in November...