Word: concert
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...undergraduates as able and talented in varied ways as the nation can produce. Their parents may be rich or poor; they may be the sophisticated and city-wise children of New Yorkers or the graduates of tiny schools in rural New Mexico; some are ready to perform on the concert stage while others are superb athletes. What unites them are the values--or at least the judgments--of our selectors: each student must be able to pursue a demanding course of academic studies, and possess a special talent or spark--ranging from something as vague as "leadership qualities" to something...
Although the presidential race still looks like a celebrity sweepstakes at times, this campaign differs substantially from those in the past. Star-spangled benefits, which once filled concert halls and provided candidates with quick revenues, have gone the way of Nixon bumper stickers. The reason? The new campaign spending law makes such fund raisers useless...
...Clamma Dale, for instance, brings to the role of Bess high musical polish and dramatic intelligence, a voice of molten gold and the fierce grace of a stalking leopard. Porgy made her, at 28, an instant star; she is booked for theater, opera and concert appearances through 1978. The youngest child of a middle-class family in Chester, Pa., the incomparable Clamma learned to play the cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera...
...design by Harris and Architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee testifies to the perhaps inadvertent wisdom of earlier eras. Everything about the two 19th century concert halls that Harris reveres-Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal and Boston's Symphony Hall-has an optimum effect on the sound produced. Like them, the new Fisher Hall is a rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will...
...boss, and my approach from the start was that if anyone was going to be exiled to Argentina in the morning, it was going to be him, not me." Harris is not going anyplace, except in triumph to Salt Lake City and Bombay to work on new concert halls...