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...England's persistently foul weather has added its own contribution to the list of Crimson uncertainties by keeping the varsity in Briggs cage for the entire month of March. Unable to conduct a single genuine practice session on a lacrosse field, Munro must somehow prepare his team for the Spring opener with Hofstra next Monday...
...rest of Harvard in Bermuda this year, and they too are going there for sun and games. Unfortunately, Bermuda will not be restful, but will involve a solid week of "spring training" which Harvard teams have never been able to negotiate in the local dust bowl known as Briggs Cage...
...cage, where we may view...
...program which Adams House presented on Wednesday night seemed at the start totally miscellaneous. The Beethoven Violin Sonata, Op.96, opened it, the Schoenberg String Trio, Op. 45 followed, and the second half plunged into the electronic music of Cage, Mache and Schaeffer. But all the pieces closely complemented each other, for the modern works were all intent upon evoking a sense of enigmatic direction, of thoughtful uncertainty, and the Beethoven at least approached them by using an unusual formal scheme. Listening to all this raised the important question of what should determine taste within so free a style...
...three electronic pieces also have a preoccupation with free progression, but in this music the movement remains "surprises" and goes no further. The aesthetic ideas of these composers aside, such unpurposeful repetition of sounds (unpurposeful to my ear at least) is simply dull. This is particularly true of John Cage's Fontana Mix, where two tapes can be superimposed in any fashion--and where in this instance the combination resulted in twenty minutes of nonsense. Yet a recording exists in which that is not true: the record's particular overlapping of the tapes gives the noises a consistent texture...