Word: choir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the sale, Hampshire employed Standish, Ayer and Woods, an investment management firm, to reinvest its money. In summer 1978, the Committee at Hampshire on Investment Responsibility (CHOIR), set up after the demonstration to review all new investments, learned of the South African investments...
...CHOIR recommended to the Finance Committee that it sell stocks in the three companies with interests in South Africa, the Finance Committee voted to withdraw the investments...
...premiere of Orbits was one of his most ambitious formations yet. Many of the performers belonged to a San Francisco trombone choir called the Bay Bones. Reinforcements included the entire trombone sections of the San Francisco and Oakland Symphonies and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. One musician came all the way from Florida. Brant's music is fairly frequently played by major ensembles, but he has no illusions about the practicality of a work for 80 trombones. "I think no further than the first performance," he says. "Probably when Berlioz wrote his Requiem, which needs four brass bands...
...final burst of nervous optimism. Blocking problems, which seem minor at first, keep recurring. Too often what passes for choreography becomes simply two pairs facing each other as the featured character prances in between. Every now and then, all five actresses line up at the edge of the stage, choir-style, and start singing. They're singing quite nicely, to be sure, but the show loses its dramatic force when the players only produce the theatrical equivalent of declaiming from a podium...
...Trombone Choir--Jordan Hall New England Conservatory...