Word: harping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, the picture is not altogether a happy one. Rates of inflation and unemployment, though declining, will remain high by all historic standards. In the fall political campaign, Republicans will harp on how rapidly production, inflation and unemployment are improving; Democrats will bitterly complain that all are still far from anything that could be touted as full prosperity. Says Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution: "You'll think they are talking about two different countries-and they'll both be right...
...culmination of a year's toil that through performance should prove this department is interested in doing more than analyzing notes in a score. Titles of the pieces range from the traditional trio for clarinet, violin and piano to one called "Tuesdays are always yellow, aren't they?" for harp and it's-anyone's-guess-what-else. Although Harvard does not have the most illustrious name as far as graduate music schools go the composition professors are outstanding and their students are a highly select and qualified crew...
Tune up your harp, polish your old halo...
...four separate pieces, starting in 1897. Some 16 years later he fused them to make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...
Concerto Concert with the Kirkland Festival Orchestra featuring Gerry Moshell, conductor Stephen Drury, piano and Kip Wilkins, oboe. Prokofieff Piano Concerto No. 3, Strauss Oboe Concerto, plus chamber works for harp and tenor by Grandjany and Stravinsky. Kirkland House...