Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Art Institute has reflected the city's tastes and interests for seven decades, and fell on hard times only in the 1950s, when lackluster leadership led to a period of inaction and interoffice intrigue. Under Cunningham, probably the only museum director who ever played center on his college football team, the museum has snapped back, with attendance up a remarkable 559,000 last year, to a total of 2,516,000, and membership at an alltime high of 38,769. Cunningham means to capitalize on the revival of interest with new electronic...
Cole Porter, the lyricist composer, was a Yale man. Ron Porter, the dancer-director, is a Harvard man. Put them together and Yale wins 24-20, but it's a hell of a game. Sometimes not what you'd expect, sometimes not what you'd want, but a hell of a game...
...extra songs (an innovation borrowed from the recent off-Broadway revival) are preceeded and followed by predictably awkward transitions. Also it helps not at all that each musical number, when the dancing is over, has gone on so long you forget whatever plot-point led into it. Worse yet, director Porter and his company are plainly more comfortable when the music is playing than when it's not; when there's no dancing, no orchestra, and no flashy movement, everything falls a little flat...
...amount of lyrical or musical genius can obliterate the productions one grisly faux-pas: an otherwise nonexistent character choreographed for himself by the director. It is one thing for a director to appear in his own production, and quite another to write himself into it. Besides, he should have trusted this production enough to be in the audience, watching...
...IHardenbergh Associates and Cambridge Design Group. Like Freeman, all the other principals except Tom. Hardenbergh teach at Harvard: Len Gittle-man is a lecturer on Photography in the Carpenter Center (he teaches the highly popular Vis Stud 140); Robert G. Gardner '48, presently making movies in Africa, is the director of the Film Study Center in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Derek Lamb is a lecture on Light and Communication at the VAC; and Eric Martin '58 is a lecturer on Visual Studies. Freeman himself as an assistint professor of Design...