Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the age when most women mark even one birthday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth cheerfully celebrates two each year. Last week, with peripatetic Prince Philip back at anchor and her three children at her side, the Queen held a quiet family party at Windsor Castle on the occasion of her 36th birthday. The pomp and pageantry come on June 2, official birthday of British monarchs...
...achieve such balance, Composer Nono wrote at least one dynamic marking over every note and word in the score. His other work on the program, She Has Come: Songs for Silvia (a first birthday present to his daughter Silvia), had the same wild leaps and a score instructing the soloists when to have their mouths wide open, when barely open, when closed...
...seven years of jumping in Massachusetts, one of this country's leading parachute centers, there has been only one death--the birthday cake drowning of last September off Plum Island...
There a young Harvard student named Aaron Copland knocked on the door and was admitted. In a book published on his sixtieth birthday, he recollects: "In my own mind she was a continuing link in that long tradition of the French intellectual woman. . . . Nadia Boulanger had her own salon where musical aesthetics were argued and the musical future engendered." Other Harvard students came--Walter Piston and Randall Thomson. For talk there were Satie, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Copland recalls that Mlle. Boulanger "was particularly intrigued by new musical developments. . . . Nothing under the head- ing of music could possibly be thought...
...friends threw a little party her seventieth birthday, at the of Igor Markevitch in the Swiss As ever, she was thin, almost in Copland's term, "nun-like." Markevitch children presented her $3,000 diamond purchased by boulangerie, and the guests broke a chorus composed for the by former student Francis Poulence was a birthday party such as few enjoy; Mlle. Boulanger had the congratulations of the musical world...