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...meeting, held at Rindge Tech Auditorium, was attended over-whelmingly by Frisoli backers who alternately applauded or booed their supporters and opponents on the auditorium stage. A vociferous contingent of anti-Frisoli people provided enough of a balance so that Ackermann, who chaired the meeting, repeatedly had to call for order...
...instruments are on view at last. Many have been restored to playability. The Met plans to tape-record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine Bartolommeo Cristofori...
Last week Steinberg led the orchestra through a program of Shostakovich and Mozart that, besides being musically rewarding, demonstrated that the auditorium is an acoustical gem. Heinz Hall has what is called a good throw. Its sound reaches the audience in smooth, vibrant, evenly distributed waves. German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz removed a lot of old velvet, surrounded the stage with reflector panels (removable for opera and ballet), then hung a larger, fan-shaped reflector out over the main floor. "In the old days," says Steinberg, "Pittsburghers had no way of telling what their orchestra really sounded like. To find...
...Charulata" (A Woman Named Charu), an international award-winning film by Indian director Satyajit Ray, will be shown at 4 p.m. Saturday, at MIT Auditorium, Room 10-250. Proceeds from the benefit screening will aid Bengali refugees in India. For reservations, call Dr. S. Sarkar, 742-6583, ext. 303 or 306. Donation...
...That auditorium was jammed with people, the Brown band was so loud, and the fans kept giving us all of that Aggie nonsense. With all of the inexperienced sophomores I have playing, it made a big difference," said Bertrand yesterday...