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...choreographers (who chose both costumes and sound for their dances) were impressively canny in their selection of costume. Wendy Perron relieved the formality of design of A Place Apart with magnificently striped and decolletee dresses. All are Sleeping on the Hill, a period piece set to music by Benjamin Britten, used sheets as material for white burial dresses, each elaborately and individually styled...
...Reginald Brindle, he weaves nimbly through some fierce technical obstacles, catching the harshness of the contemporary idiom while losing none of the guitar's characteristic aplomb and lucidity. Best of all is his performance of Nocturnal, a 19-minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather than begin with the theme (Come, Heavy Sleep, a 1597 air by Lutanist-Composer John Dowland), Bream's guitar muses, churns restlessly, declaims, then drifts over the threshold of silence, leaving the final notes hanging in the air like wisps...
Radcliffes budget has also doubled in the last ten years, from three million dollars in 1957 to six million dollars in 1967. "The problem had doubled but the methods hadn't changed," Britten said, explaining the reorganization...
...large proportion of the budget is spent on maintenance of the physical plant. Wages and salary scales, which, according to Britten, had been "miserable," have also gone up in the years since Mary I. Bunting was appointed president...
Radcliffe has slipped into the red several times in the last few years and has had to eat into its capital. Britten said this was not unusual. "Most colleges are facing this kind of problem," he said. "And Radcliffe is better off than most. We are not worried...