Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply outrageous that the School Committee should feel it necessary to decide which speakers are fit to address Harvard audiences--or anyone else. The Rindge Tech auditorium happens to be the largest one around Harvard. If a Harvard club asks to use it for a speaker, the reason is obviously that the group believes a great many people will want to hear the man's views first-hand. They should be able...
...Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has attacked the Cambridge School Committee for its refusal to let Stokely Carmichael speak at Rindge Technical High School auditorium...
...foot bomb in place of genitalia. An American colonel is satirized as being "anti-Communist, anti-queer, anti-drink, anti-cigarettes." At the end of the first act, the entire cast appears onstage wearing paper bags over their heads. Whimpering, they stumble over the footlights and into the auditorium, pressing members of the audience to lead them out through the doors. The high point of the evening is a song called Zapping the Cong...
...starkly modern, laced with traditional and atonal improvisations by a septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
Worth the Agony. In the finals, performed last week with the Fort Worth symphony in the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, each contestant played the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and one of two Beethoven concertos. A computer tallied the scores of the international panel of 17 judges, but the announcement of the results had to be delayed while contest officials frantically searched for Radu Lupu. He was found at last, wandering the hallways, gulping air in an effort to pacify his queasy stomach. But the agony had been worth enduring: minutes later he was named...