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...Susie. Their bass section was so weak as to be superfluous, and even the "Hey" in one of their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Glee Clubs at Sanders | 11/11/1961 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Crimson is now favored to take the New England Team Racing Championships this weekend in the Fowle Trophy regatta at M.I.T. Competition from the other finalists, Coast Guard Boston University, and M.I.T., is expected to be tough. Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann. Mike Horn, Dave Stookey, and Pete Farrow, the skippers who swept the elimination series two weeks ago, will pilot Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing Team Sweeps Schell Trophy Races | 11/8/1961 | See Source »

...found the most enjoyable part of the concert to be Benjamin Britten's brilliant Serenade for Tenor Solo, Horn, and Strings. In this cycle of six English poems, Britten combines his British love of melody with a fascinating originality of composition, and the result is a masterpiece...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: HRO at Sanders | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

...Friday's concert Mallory Walker was tenor soloist with hornist Ralph Pottle, a member of the Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet. Mr. Pottle unfortunately made a series of disastrous mistakes in his opening solo, and although the program notes explained that "the opening and closing horn passages shall be played as directed by the composer--on the natural harmonics of the instrument--hence the irregularities in intonation," it was painfully obvious to all what had happened when the identical passage was correctly played at the end of the piece. Those who realized at the time that Britten had not intended...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: HRO at Sanders | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

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