Word: bache
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARLIER THIS YEAR, it became publicly known that John F. Kennedy '40 made tapes while he was in the White House--not show tunes or Bach, but conversations secretly recorded, no different from Richard Nixon. The messianic figure who called a country to seek a New Frontier seemed to have been dumped back in the old hinterlands of presidential spying; the cool and courageous war hero was bugging his own family, as dirty a deed as tackling during touch football...
...also felt obliged to prove we were true campers. One night, a bunch of us decided to steal all the underwear from the adjacent male bunk, with the long-range goal of slinging their jockey shorts from the moose antlers in the main dining room. After a day of Bach, there I was slithering across the ground like a Marine commando in sneakers and flannel night gown. My objective to provoke the cute bassoonist who slept in the top left hand bunk. My dignity: like his underwear, soon to be hung from a pair of rotting moose antlers...
...Bach have 22 children? queried one wall "His organ had no stops. "Below a familiar ode to a certain woman from Nantucket was the question. "What's the difference between an orchestra and a bull?" Answer "In the bull, the horns are in the front and the asshole in the back." That one had killed us all summer...
Zimmermann's score is derived from a single twelve-note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...
Eight Harvard students joined professional vocalists in singing Bach's "Give Us Peace" to a sold-out Symphony Hall during last night's Musicians Against Nuclear Arms concert...