Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What most marred the group's performance was quite simple: it played too loud too often, and so muffled not only the subtleties of the music's dynamics, but also some of the instruments' varied sonorities. Although Conductor James Walker's baton pattern was a clear one, the players hardly followed it. Entrances and rhythmic patterns were consistently ragged, especially in slow passages. Yet the ensemble brought out considerable color and exuberance and the solo lines indicated real promise for the group...
Convinced that nuclear war is "an even greater fear than despotism." Cellist Pablo Casals, 85. last week launched in San Francisco what he describes as a two-year, worldwide "personal crusade for peace." Taking up the baton for his first public concert in the U.S. in 34 years...
...former Governor of Minnesota, perked an ear to the air, broke off his conversation with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, and hustled over to the band. "Thanks, boys," cried Freeman. "I haven't heard that in quite a while." Bandleader John Celebre, still brandishing his baton, turned to stare as Freeman left...
Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology, has appealed for widespread support for Charles McDew, the 22-year old chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee who faces a charge of criminal anarchy for anti-segregation activities in Baton Rouge...
McDew and Robert Zellner, a SNCC field representative, were arrested Feb. 17 when they visited another SNCC worker in the Baton Rouge Jail. They were first charged with vagrancy, Niebuhr explained, but when they showed police that they carried more than $100 between them, the criminal anarchy charge was substituted...