Word: impromptue
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...Fullness of Joy,” by Patricia Van Ness. The less intricate piece served as a fine interlude between Brooks’s intense performance and the two final pieces.Joy-Leilani Garbutt from the Graduate School of Education played the second to last piece, a Louis Vierne Impromptu. This was another highlight, as Garbutt played through the difficult and diverse piece with clarity and poise.James E. Goldschmidt ’09 played another famous piece to finish the evening in Charles-Marie Widor’s Toccata in F-Major. The typically majestic piece suffered a little from...
...Sprague was a focused student with conservative tendencies. Fellow classmate Foley Vaughn ’60 wrote in an e-mail that Sprague was “very Brahmin,...not a man of the people.” McKinney recalled Sprague and his roommates’ consternation over an impromptu hockey match held in McKinney’s Mower Hall suite, where a crushed beer can served as the puck and the fireplace as the goal. “They ascended to the third floor as a group to protest the noise,” McKinney wrote in an e-mail.As...
...want." The Congressman was Mark Foley, at the time an obscure second-term Florida Republican. The invitation was extended to a friend of mine who, like me, was covering Capitol Hill for Roll Call. The extender was Kirk Fordham, then an aide to Foley, and the event was an impromptu springtime evening barbeque a decade...
...blame the paparazzi posse on motorcycles that helped speed Diana to her doom. Another is that, having elevated Diana to heroine status even before her death, people needed villains, and her ex-in-laws were right out of central casting. Among hundreds of signs attached to flowers at the impromptu Diana memorial outside Buckingham Palace were ones that read, "They have your blood on their hands," and "They don't deserve...
...Russian, others Estonian, packed into the place for an ear-splitting all-night techno rave. "It was an experiment, the first time we've done this," says Andrus Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history...