Word: ben
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Beethoven in Ballparks. Last week, with his orchestra midway through its fourth annual tour, Conductor Swalin was proud of his boast that "in North Carolina, the word 'symphony' is no longer something to be afraid of." Minneapolis-born and Vienna-trained, Ben Swalin had had his big idea for a traveling symphony while teaching music appreciation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There was hardly a city in the state that was large enough to support a regular symphony. Swalin decided that if people couldn't come to the music, then the music should...
Good Will & $2. North Carolinians appreciate their orchestra, and more & more of them have been signing up in local branches of the symphony society which Ben and his wife Maxine have organized. Today, he has some 20,000 supporting members, and "even if most of them are $2 members, the support and good will are there...
...North Carolina legislature has upped its contribution too. Last year, they supported Ben's orchestra to the tune of $12,000 (to let the legislators hear what they're voting for, he takes the orchestra onto the floor of the state capitol at Raleigh every year for an evening concert). Last week, they voted him $15,000 to carry on next year...
...such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher...
Donelan exhibited his amazing control again as he struck out three and walked none. Ben Akillian collected the freshmen's first home run of the year. Bob Thompson hit for three bases, and seven other Yardlings got singles. Coach Dolph Samborski crowded 14 men into the game...