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...From left: Washington March Leader Bayard Rustin, N.A.A.C.P. Attorney Jack Greenberg, National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young Jr., CORE Director James Farmer, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, King, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman John Lewis, Negro American Labor Council Chief A. Philip Randolph, Student Leader Courtney...
...says Noah Greenberg, "you have a great deal of time to think -and I thought." What he thought about during his five years as machinist-messboy with the merchant marine was forming a group of professional musicians and singers to revive the all but forgotten music composed and played during the five centuries before the birth of Bach...
...Unearthed. Pre-Bach compositions, Greenberg insists, are "not little delicate museum pieces. This was music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
Exotic Wildlife. The problem with pre-Bach music, explains Greenberg, is that "you're never certain exactly what scoring the composer has in mind. All the notes are there, but the composer very rarely put down who was to sing or play them." To the formidable task of determining the tempo, dynamics and instrumentation of the worm-eaten scores, Greenberg brings a composer's skill, a musicologist's interest in research and instinctive good taste. He searches for clues to instrumentation by digging through such obscure miscellanea as the purchasing orders for a 16th-century English town...
Rewon Freedoms. Director Greenberg sees the fund's main future as "enforcement of the major precedents we established." Acting on last week's Supreme Court order in Atlanta, for example, the fund aims to tackle tokenism in 80 other school cases. Also under way are training institutes for Southern civil rights lawyers, taught by Northern law professors, plus legal seminars for more Northern lawyers and 2,000 Northern collegians, who will spend this summer trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi. If and when the civil rights bill passes, predicts Greenberg, "massive resistance to its enforcement" will plunge...