Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chords were clean and full-toned, and Liszt's famous accelerating octave chromatic scales sent tense waves of excitement through the audience. Kogan's marvelously smooth execution of Liszt's flamboyance was accompanied by a sensitive, mature interpretation of the melodic lines, which often teeter precariously on the brink of ridiculous melodrama and so are salvageable only through extreme delicacy...
...outer movements were better done than the Credo or the Sanctus, the former being sloppy, and perhaps too demanding for the Choir, and the latter featuring the quartet of soloists and a long violin solo which was drabbly executed by Mr. Brink...
...including the Collegium Musicum, The Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. The soloists, all from the Boston area, were Mary Strebing, soprano, Jan Curtis, alto, Robert Gartside, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass. The very fine orchestra included both Harvard students and Boston professionals contracted by concertmaster Robert Brink. Adams led all these forces in an intense and exciting performance...
...decision to move in on his family drives his son, Patrick (Mark Achtemeier), who has always resented him, to the brink of patricide. Patrick's own son Michael (Doug McKinley) has grown up to be unshakeably unimaginative, and rejects his grandfather's offer of an all-expenses-paid trip around the world. He explains that all he really wants to do is settle down and marry his girl friend. Grandfather promptly expires in a living room chair, overcome by this indirect condemnation of his own life-style, while his family celebrates Michael's engagement with champagne. The Millay family gets...
...that has nationwide implications. The crux of the issue in Boston: Why should taxpayers money be poured into a new public-university center with a planned enrollment of 12,500 when there is space for some 20,000 students in nearby private institutions- several of which are on the brink of financial disaster...