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This meeting, and a similar one the next night in nearby San Benito, where 153 professed Democrats bolted their party, were the latest instances of a new sort of Texas political charivari: the "resignation rally." Out of such a rally in Fort Worth came some 600 signed resignation cards; at Harlingen about 150 switched; at Littlefield, 126. Rallies are now being held almost weekly, to the delight of G.O.P. leaders fired up by last May's election of Republican John Tower to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...
...addition to Charivari, the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs also presented four works by other student composers. Paul Knudson's Piano Sonata seemed to be the most significant of these. Despite passages of atonality, the work as a whole is not forbiddingly abstruse. A Serenade for Wind Quartet by Stuart Feder, Intrada and Dance by John Davison, and a Sonata for Cello and Piano by John Bavicchi were also on the program...
...premier of "Charivari," an opera buffa by Peter Westergaard '53, will be the feature attraction in the Harvard Radcliffe Music Club's concert at Paine Hall at 8:30 tonight...
There has come into our hands a copy of the Lampoon for December 17 last, which purports to be a parody (or imitation) of Punch, or the London Charivari, the well-known English periodical. Accordingly, we marched off to Widener Library and then to Lamont in an abortive attempt to find the original article in order to be able to effect a comparison. Neither of those institutions stocked the magazine, but we were finally able to secure through the kind offices of a tutor the issues of Punch for December 13 and December 20, which by coincidence were the issues...