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Things could be worse for big brother. At least he's got the raw materials to work with. What happens to the enthusiast who wants to play eclectic chamber music--who's got the talent, to boot-but lacks the needed assortment of players? The one lucky enough to have the financial and administrative wherewithal sets up an organization to perform the music on a semi-regular basis, like violinist Martha Potter has. Potter has planted the seeds of the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, that will bare its first petals in Friday night's debut in Sanders Theater...
When the Boston Symphony Chamber Players decided a couple years ago to stop giving a concer series in Sanders, it looked like Harvard was going to be left in the lurch forever without a "campus" chamber series like that had at Yale. With support, Ariel should keep us flying high, even higher than they fly in New Haven...
Concentrating on Romantic and contemporary concerts. Ariel Chamber Ensemble begins its season with program of Brahms, Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud Ariel emphasizes "dramatic works" and the relationship between music and theater. The chamber group will play Ravel's "Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme," Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde," and Brahms' Quintet Op. 111. There will also be two works by Stravinsky--"Fanfare" and "Trois Poesies de la Lyrique Japonaise." The performers are professional musicians interested in, according to its pamphlet, the "growth of a new and innovative form, music/theater." Ariel will be in Sanders Theatre on Friday night. Tickets...
This year Common Cause, the major oil companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined forces in a counterattack against the maritime lobby. Some recipients of past maritime contributions made a point of opposing the cargo preference bill on the roll call in order to demonstrate to their constituents that their votes were not for sale. Sensing the new mood, Speaker O'Neill decided not to pressure Democrats into supporting the Administration. The bill was "not a party issue," he said...
...That is bad news for unskilled youths, especially black teenagers, whose jobless rate is now 37.4%. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The great majority of economists-liberal and conservative -feel that this legislation is bad economics." The business community agrees. Notes U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Jack Carlson: "It's ironic that the groups most damaged by this legislation-the young, the black and women -are the ones who helped get it passed...