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...conservative turned moderate. A skillful technician who has parceled out many favors in his six years of running the day-to-day operations of the Senate, Byrd is thought to have 29 votes already lined up-three shy of a majority of the 62 Democrats in the upper chamber...
...Salerni programmed the same work to open both halves of the concert: David Burton's Serenata for 8 Wind Instruments, composed in 1971. Burton was a graduate student in music before his untimely death last year, and the Serenata shows a keen appreciation of the possibilities inherent in wind chamber music. In particular, winds rather than strings, by the nature of their instruments, are more suited to Burton's use of short, rhythmically changing yet repeated motives. If anything, the Serenata is too rhythmically demanding; for example, it is reasonably impossible to play six evenly-spaced notes in a measure...
...parliamentary session ends Nov. 23. And after the loss of the two seats in the by-elections, Labor whips had to muster every vote possible. Thus Labor M.P. Helene Hayman, 27, took part in voting after setting up her own private wet nursery in a room adjoining the Commons chamber. On the critical ship and aircraft bill, the barkeep, Independent Frank McGuire, 47, came into play; a supporter of the Irish Republican movement who normally backs the government on domestic issues, when he votes at all, was closely escorted through the voting lobbies by two Labor M.P.s. The crisis eased...
After that spot first appeared, one of Markey's opponents unsuccessfully copied Markey's tactic. The opponent, State Senator Steven McGrail, ran a film of himself in the State House chamber delivering a speech. He tried to look tough and dramatic, but, lacking the kind of spectacular incident that Markey had focused on, he failed to make a similar impact...
Museum of Fine Arts Early Music Series. Chamber music of the 17th century for strings and keyboard at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Daniel Stepner, violin; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Laura Jeppeson, viola da gamba. Student tickets...