Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most impressive duo playing of the evening was in the Benno Ammann Repons du Matin: Two Pieces for Trumpet and Organ. Composed in 1969 for Tarr and Kent, the demands on the trumpet player are extraordinary. With amazing precision, Tarr coped with various jazz-like fragments, brutally syncopated rhythms, and the closest of harmonies. Even when using a mute, he did not lose subtle shadings of tone...
After the intermission, Kent played Bach's Prelude and Figue in A Major (BWV 536). With so many masterpieces of the form to choose from, it is unfortunate that Kent should have come up with such an uninspiring example. The A Major does posses the architectural perfection of Bach's composition, but the long strings of 7-6 suspensions, obvious pedal points, and exposed pedal solos do not produce anything striking. Even the fugue theme was dull. Through it all, Kent's playing was beautifully clear and devold of irritating mannerisms. His style is a convincing blend of new scholarship...
...provocative report came from Physicists John Freeman and H. Kent Hills. They have been keeping track of signals from extremely sensitive devices left behind at the Apollo landing sites and capable of detecting positive ions, atoms or molecules carrying a positive electrical charge. On at least three occasions, the scientists say, the detectors registered activity that was unusual on the atmosphereless moon: clouds of gases were passing by. Analyzing the data, the scientists determined that the gases had the unmistakable characteristics of ionized water vapor...
...Closing investigations on the Kent State killings and exonerating the National Guard in that tragedy...
...Edgar Hoover's annual report said that the number of campus demonstrations, logged chiefly from press reports, was down two thirds from the year before. Scores of other commentators, including TIME, concluded that at the very least the campus uproar that had culminated in the protests after the Kent and Jackson State shootings had given way to a new calm. Last week a report by the American Council on Education put that view up against the wall...