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Gray did the damage at 2:41, when he beat Blair with help from Bill Brady and Cliff Abrccht. Ten minutes later Gray tipped in a Steve Biss rebound, and the Tigers were back in the contest...
...function of the orchestra is to provide a means whereby student composers at Harvard may have a chance to hear their works played. Last year the orchestra performed a piece of Gregory Biss, then a graduate student in the music department, and this year the orchestra played through The Bird of Paradise by Leonard Yehrman '71. On March 24, HRO will read a new piece by Faye Silberman, first year graduate in the music department. Another way that the orchestra serves the musical community is by giving students a chance to solo with an orchestra. Every year the orchestra holds...
...final work of the evening was Gregory Biss's String Quartet. The string quarter provides the advantage of lucidity, rapid harmonic and dynamic change, absolute audibility and visibility, manageable balance, tremendous possibilities for sheer sounds, and maximum polyphonic delineation. The Biss Quarter demonstrated both the advantages and potential tediousness of the mercurial technician. Biss's combination of strategies included collegno, microtonesia, and heroic written out glissandi. The work 's primary fault was monotony of radical techniques. The cumulative effect--if that is a proper term since it is not clear since it is not cleat whether the work is sequential...
...Gregory Biss will conduct the Bach Society Orchestra in its second concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. The program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Ruggles...
...Biss will have the Bach Society again next year. The experience he has gained, combined with an early campaign for more and better strings earlier in the season, will assure another fine year...