Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...die has been cast. Black people have turned to violence because they see no end to the oppression of the white power structure," Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, said yesterday afternoon...
...James Yannatos. With 18th or early 19th century classic and large Romantic works at either end of his programs, Yannatos has persistently scheduled pieces of 20th century music--often recent compositions--as keystones of his concerts. On Friday he led the HRO in performances of Mozart's Overture to Die Zauberfloete, the new clarinet concerto by professor emeritus Walter Piston, and that song to end all songs, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. What more could one ask of an evening...
...well as something of a swan song for Yannatos, who will be on leave next semester. The work requires a huge orchestra as well as mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists. Each of the six movements sets to music texts from a collection of Chinese poetry translated into German called Die chinesische Floete. Together they take an entire hour to perform. The work was thus the weightiest on the program, and received the bulk of rehearsal time since the HRO's last concert a month...
...admiration of most for his adventuresome programming, his enthusiastic conducting, and his sincere interest in the musical development of students, concentrator and non-concentrator alike. His presence will be missed next semester, as it will again be welcomed in the Fall. And then, ... Alluberall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen! Ewig ... Ewig ... Ewig...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...