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Undergraduate computer facilities now consists of two PDP 1170 computers, four disk drives, and 64 terminals--nearly twice as many as last year. But John Park '82, general operations manager at the Science Center, said yesterday the computers will continue to be overcrowded because of freshmen trying to meet the new Quantitative Reasoning requirement of the Core Curriculum...
...July 22, terrorists killed Kemal Turkler, leader of the metalworkers union and former head of DISK, the Confederation of Revolutionary Labor Unions...
...disk entitled "Computer Generations," Thompson performs a work expressly written for him, Synapse for Viola and Computer (1976) by Barry Vercoe (b. 1937), who established M.I.T.'s electronic music studio nine years ago. Thompson brings a needed touch of humanity to a cerebral work that, though serially organized, lacks sufficient aural unity...
...most substantial work on the disk is the D-major transcription of Brahms' G-major violin sonata, Op. 78, published shortly before the composer's death. Experts still dispute whether this version was written by Brahms himself, Julius Klengel, Paul Klengel, or someone else. Some people denounce the transcription; but Brahms himself loved the mellow low range, which makes this version a valuable alternative...
Lastly, Moye pays tribute to our century's greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve," both of which demonstrate Moye's marvelous legato bowing; and the dashing encore piece Requiebros that was written for and dedicated to Casals by his one-time student Gasparo Cassado...