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Derrick E. Bass '95, Tony C. Hsich '95 and Craig D. Silverstein '94 made up the first Harvard team ever to win the 17th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming competition...
...Hsieh, Bass and Silverstein went on to regional contests to qualify for the international tournament...
After 13 variations evoking in turn Bach, George Winston and Liszt, Rzewski plunged from a protracted Beethovenian trill into a truly staggering display of improvised fire-works for his cadenza. In a few minutes Rzewski demonstrated his command of Harlem stride bass, cartoonish sound effects, and Chopinesque fabric melody, while referring back to Beethoven just often enough to excuse his departures. The conclusion was a gradual rise from the lowest D-flat (tonic for the Beethoven) to the highest note on the keyboard, which was repeated more and more softly and less and less frequently until after a long rest...
...cases will test a city that today has a new police chief, a new district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People...
...Concerto, Op. 9, and went on to a career as an unabashed writer of down-to-earth tonal music. Now the composer, 72, has issued several works on the Fredonia Discs label (3947 Fredonia Drive, Hollywood, California 90068) that ought to trigger a reappraisal. Wilderness Journal, a symphony for bass- baritone (the late Donald Gramm), organ and orchestra (the National Symphony), on texts by Thoreau, surges and soars, while The Nine Lessons of Christmas lyrically transcends its seasonal origins. And La Montaine the virtuoso is represented by an engaging reading of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book...