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...imposing machine. It weighed 30 tons and occupied a space as large as a boxcar. Its 40 modular memory and processing units, each housed in a 9-ft.-high black metal cabinet and bristling with dials, wires and indicator lights, filled a room the size of a small gymnasium. Its 18,000 vacuum tubes radiated so much heat that industrial cooling fans were needed to keep its circuitry from melting down...
Repons is a good illustration. Musically and technologically, it is Boulez's most ambitious, unorthodox undertaking to date. In a large gymnasium (the Los Angeles performances were at the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around the room, performing at various times on amplified xylophone, vibraphone, cimbalom, harp, celesta, electric organ, two pianos and percussion. The sounds are fed into a bank of computer-synthesizers, which alter and transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around...
...squash vs. Penn, 1 p.m., Hemenway Gymnasium...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The Harvard women's basketball team received a severe blow to its Ivy League title hopes here at Jadwin Gymnasium last night when the cagers were mauled by the last-place Princeton Tigers, 88-67, before a Parents' Weekend crowd...
Tigers, 88-67 at Jadwin Gymnasium...