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...Fourteen years ago, after two elderly sisters in the care of county workers were found starved to death, Judge Friedman was asked by the county board of supervisors to join a panel charged with investigating services to the aged. Within a year, Friedman and others on the panel had created a model system of programs to replace the one that had failed the hapless women. But in 1992, budget cutbacks forced its cancellation. Friedman quickly countered by launching ACE, a consortium of six agencies that agreed collaboratively to close the gap in services the county would no longer provide. Trained...
...jazz squished together) Players took over the hall. They are currently the leading steel band ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of pan music. In loose white pants and fluorescent tops, they were determined to bring a little of Trinidad and Tobago into the austere building. The fourteen member band includes a fifteen-year-old boy playing the six bass, and one woman who plays the double seconds. All the members share an amazing ability to work with most, if not all, of the instruments on stage, and each band member added their own style during their solos...
...their interpretations. In a sense the script is so solidly seductive that the lines each time they speak. Cy Coleman's music and David Zippel's lyrics are often guilty of stealing the show, ranging from jazz to filmscore to mood tunes, and always spiked with witty lyrics. The fourteen man orchestra does a laudable job of wrapping that music into a tight ball and tossing it out to an audience that lapped it up with fervor...
...Next weekend I just hope to continue the same and lead the team as well or better than I have during the season," Focrum said. "This is the most exciting time. We are really psyched. We have fourteen healthy bodies back on the court." MARIST 0 HARVARD...
Galway returned to the stage for Couperin's La Pie'montoise, a sonata and suite in fourteen parts, many of them dances. The piece showed the greatest range in terms of mood, shifting from cool elegance to pensiveness to a delicacy evoking spring. Especially interesting was the interaction between Huggett and Galway, a look of complicity between them finding its musical expression in a passage filled with repetition, as the two echoed both each other and themselves in repeating the same passages. The applause was warm after the surprisingly sudden ending, with especial kudos for Galway and Huggett...