Word: harps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humorous note with the Three Little Little Pieces of Mark DeVoto '61. In the first, very brief, piece, one anxiously awaited the entrance of the guitar player--who obliged with one strain at the very end of the movement. In the second, the sole twelve-tone piece, pizzicato strings, harp and per cussion executed difficult rhythms gracefully if not perfectly. At the end of the third piece, a dirge with an ostinato bass, the orchestra turned into a chorus and sang the final chord. Happily, Biss repeated the performance for an amused audience...
...concert also featured the first East Coast performance of a cantata written last year by Randall Thompson, for mixed voiced, brass choir and harp. The second of the piece's three parts was pleasant; a lovely, smooth harp passage was answered softly by a muted trumpet and by the voices. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon," the voices sang...
...grant of $10,000 is expected from a major foundation, but has not yet been cleared. "We are also waiting on a couple of people who may contribute a total of $7500," Harp said...
...rest of the money will probably come from smaller private donations, as has the money already received. "It will be very close," Harp said. "What we really hope for is a kind philanthropist who can solve it all." Last year the Project received a large hunk of their total the day before the plane left for Africa...
...money," Harp said, "we will have to reduce the number of people who go. This will leave a couple of jobs in Tanganyika unfilled...