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Born in Seattle, he started musical studies at the University of Washington at eleven, later worked with Darius Milhaud, both at Mills College and in Paris, and then earned his doctorate at Stanford. (On the other side of the lectern, he has taught at the University of Michigan since 1973.) But something about conventional composing left him dissatisfied. "I got tired of the aesthetics and doctrinaireness of it," he recalls. Two failed marriages made everything worse. "My personal upheavals made me question everything...
From the beginnings of history and literature, human beings have also invoked the sun. In rejecting peace offers from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great explained, "Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters." And in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, speaking of his nation, declared, "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that...
Harvard will feature a young line-up, with three freshmen and two sophomores. Farokh Pandole--younger brother of former Harard squash standout, Darius Pandole--Jeremy Fraiberg and Jon Kaye will be play in the top five for the Crimson...
Even though Harvard sat out five of its starters, eight of the nine individual matches were shutouts. Harvard's number one and two players, Darius Pandole and Co-Captain Russ Ball were playing in a tournament. Also missing the match were Co-Captain Jack Polsky, George Polsky and James Gilfillan...
...shook hands and got our bags. "It's my last big match before graduation," Darius said...