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...performance itself, although hastily assembled, was generally competent, especially in the first performance. Despite the formidable rhythmic difficulties, ensemble entrances were crisp, and intonation was tight and controlled. With the exception of the second movement, which tended to get a bit soupy, the overall interpretation was sensitive and careful...
Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
...teams to go into the departments after the election. The question is whether the teams should begin before you have appointed the new department Secretary. There is a strong case to be made that we should wait." Carter's answer, scribbled in blue ink in the margin, was crisp and clear: "We won't wait. If leader is identified, good; if not, let's move...
...notes that the work's petulant power fell by the wayside. In particular, concertmaster Michael Harris showed little aptitude for his post, combining lackluster solos with bowings that evidently left the first violins non-plussed. Despite impressive third movement efforts by trumpeter Norman Birge and oboeist Jack Klebanow and crisp second movement development work by pianist Judy Kogan, the winds were swept along by the tide of mediocrity, while the percussion section combined poor placement (along the left wall of the Sanders stage) with ill-chosen dynamic levels...
...find a crisp cold beer waiting on the back seat...