Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...
...chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones), it is thoroughly suffused...
...this thing was not done in a corner . . . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds...
...Lowell House dramatic group will present the first all-House production of the theatrical season during the Winter Reading Period, director Alan Rinzler '60 announced last night. Except for a single female lead, all people associated with the production will be members of the House...
Although over 60 per cent of the medley manuscripts were destroyed in the fire at the Varsity Club last Monday, the Band will still be able to perform most of its original selections. Scores or parts of scores still exist for all selections except the Dartmouth medley by Leroy Anderson...