Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS fall, the council's primary task will be facing up to the challenges that it posed last spring. Even as the council began to understand its own importance, it botched its responsibility. The ROTC controversy and the Vega concert fiasco were undeniable screw-ups, but they were the kind of screw-ups we associate with an uncertain beginner. Laudably the council was trying out its wings. A few false starts were to be expected...
Last year's council term ended with a tumultuous debate about the role of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on campus. Also last spring, the council lost several thousand dollars when it sponsored a poorly attended concert by folk singer Suzanne Vega...
...female and teenage market, a strategy that particularly angers health experts. In Taiwan street peddlers hired by U.S. firms hand out free cigarette samples at discos. Marketers for R.J. Reynolds last year planned to charge five empty packets of its Winston cigarettes as admission to a rock concert in Taiwan but dropped the idea in the face of a public outcry...
Arnowitt's playing became much more emotional and moving through the course of the performance. The pianist's slight build belied the powerful tone that he attained particularly in the latter portion of the concert. The lilting restraint of the Adagio in the third sonata was haunting. The playful Allegro assai revealed the pianist's versatility. But Arnowitt's performance of the fourth sonata proved to be his strongest of the evening both technically and artistically...
...performance in the intimate atmosphere of the salonstyle parlor at the French Library lent itself to one of the themes that Arnowitt himself emphasized in the program notes--the intensely personal nature of the works themselves and the private reaction that they arouse within the individual listener. However, the concert was better publicized than the organizers expected, forcing the overflow crowd to stand or sit awkwardly in the antechamber. While this might have been encouraging for the performer, greater consideration should have been given to the audience...