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...Recorded music schedule for Matthews Hall Common rooms is: Saturday afternoon, Bach's The Art of the Fugue; Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D major, Opus 6, no. 1; Vivaldi's Trio sonata in D minor, Opus 1, no. 12; and Stradella's Sinfonia in D minor. Sunday, Verdi's String Quartet in e minor; Tchaikovskii's Fatum, Symphonic Poem, Opus 77; Strauss's Symphonia domestica, Opus 53; and The Genesis Suite (Prelude by Schonberg, Creation by Shilkret, Adam and Eve by Tansman, Cain and Abel by Milhaud, Noah's Ark by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Babel by Stravinsky, and The Covenant...
...Youth Already Old." When Quadros says, "I am no plutocrat," he means it. He was born and raised a Roman Catholic in the tiny Mato Grosso town of Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with...
...first, the machine kissed him off as "the mad Lincoln from Mato Grosso." But soon he had everybody so mad that one politico rushed up and punched him in the mouth while he was speaking against a giveaway bill. Amid the uproar, the speaker ordered the galleries cleared. "No! No!" shouted Quadros, blood streaming from his lips. "Let the people stay! Let them watch!" By 1950, firmly established as the little citizen at war with graft, a Chaplin with a cause, Quadros won the most votes of all 900 candidates for the state assembly...
...assurance; his deft, varied and imaginative scoring and an evident command of conventional forms allow him to experiment at leisure with the work's harmonies and tonalities. This is a relaxed and clever style reminiscent, if anything, of the early Ernest Bloch--I have in mind particularly, his Concerto grosso for Orchestra...
MARY JANE GROSSO...