Word: koch
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Over the next century, scientists such as Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich developed more vaccines to diseases such as diphtheria, in the process saving countless millions of lives...
City Poet really gets off the ground only when it comes to O'Hara's Harvard years. When he enrolled there after the war on the G.I. Bill, he joined an undergraduate population containing an astonishing number of future luminaries, including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Harold Brodkey, Alison Lurie, Robert Bly and Robert Creeley. By sophomore year O'Hara and Edward Gorey, his roommate at Eliot House, occupied the center of a flourishing artistic and social scene whose campy, brittle style was a bald rip-off of Oscar Wilde and characters out of Evelyn Waugh...
...LABEL: KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS...
...LABEL: KOCH SCHWANN; ELEKTRA NONESUCH...
...what of Gorecki's other music? Is he just a one-tune wonder, or does he have more songs to sing? Two new CDs provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...