Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because it serves as the front line for the whole operation. Its four blinking consoles are managed by specialists in space dynamics; they report on booster systems, retrofire, flight dynamics and guidance-respectively known in the control room's jargon as "Booster," "Retro," "Fido" and "Guide." Working in concert, they are responsible for propellant tanks, for calculating the exact moment of retrorocket firings, computing maneuver times and keeping track of spacecraft computers and guidance systems...
...Lutheranism within ten or 15 years. Jungkuntz doubts that the final result should be a massive, centrally directed national Lutheran body. Instead, he suggests, the reorganization might encourage decentralized, unified, regional synods, all in communion with one another, meeting regional needs on their own and national needs in concert...
...GENERAL PUBLIC suffered through another concert in Sanders Theatre last Monday night. Why Harvard is the only school of any consequence anywhere in the country without a decent concert hall no one can explain. Most of us are tired of quarters for violin, cello, piano and street noises and tired of wiping out neighbors' sweat off our knees. It is a disgrace to force any musicians of merit to attempt to perform in the decrepit fire trap...
...concert itself, the fairest thing to say would be that, on the whole, it was enjoyable, particularly if one hasn't a very good sense of pitch. The Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 kin F Major, opus 80, opened the program and nearly closed it. Alexander Schneider, Leslie Parnas, and Murray Perahia showed no life, no energy, and no enthusiasm. Each movement was stodgy, and movements two and three positively died at the end. The cellist performed rather well. Unfortunately the violinist was sadly out of tune. The biggest single complaint I would register against the performance was lack...
...grace of the turn of the century. Someone once said of Busoni that "he was hopelessly ahead of his time when he was writing and is now hopelessly Romantic." That adequately describes his sonata. It probably says a lot about the program and the performance at the concert as well...