Word: brandenburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dunster House Music Society is sponsoring a Brandenburg Party and open reading of Handel's Concerti Grosso, Organ Concerto and Viola Concerto. Michael Natal'90, will perform the organ parts, accompanied by violist Alexandra Moellman '89. Ken Uchino '89 will conduct the afternoon performance, in which all string players are welcome...
...Lawrence's In Praise of Wolves, has tried to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation. But specialists have been forced to study shy wild animals from a distance. No one actually lived with a wild-wolf pack and returned with photographs to prove it until Mech and Brandenburg traveled to Ellesmere...
Soon after establishing a base on the Kansas-size island, the men approached a pack. Mech immediately dropped flat on his belly and began whining loudly, both to get the wolves' attention and to convince them that he was no threat. For the next few days Mech and Brandenburg spent much of their time groveling, trying to win the wolves' acceptance. Eventually, the pack allowed the men to set up tents within...
...Mech and Brandenburg got to know the pack, they gave each wolf a name. Among them were Scruffy, a playful yearling who was picked on by his elders, and Mom, an easygoing female. At one point, Mom calmly watched as her puffball pups scrambled over Mech's feet, untying his shoelaces. Later, Brandenburg entered the den and photographed the babies while Mom waited outside...
Wolf experts have long known that a pack has a social structure, but Mech and Brandenburg got to observe it intimately. The pack is led by a dominant, "alpha," male and female, and every other wolf knows its place in the chain of command. Much of wolf home life is focused on teaching the pups to be competitive, while at the same time schooling them in the social graces of the hierarchy...