Word: lande
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...Douglas Allanbrook '48 played the piano reduction of his Ethan Frome for Aaron Copland, who tentatively promised to give the opera a New York premiere after requesting a second play-through. Soon after, however, Copeland finished his own Tender Land, which he produced instead. "Immensely proud" and wanting "the Met or nothing," Allanbrook shelved the score and moved onto other projects, not wanting to waste time selling the piece when he could be writing others. So, for nearly 50 years following its composition, the opera lay unproduced and unpremiered while Allanbrook wrote other pieces and carried on his busy life...
Another project that has the potential to sour town-gown relations is the University's Allston land purchases. Harvard ran afoul of the Allston/Brighton community and Boston City Hall on this issue; when the University disclosed in June 1997 that it had secretly purchased 52 acres in Allston between...
Spiegelman and Kevin A. McCluskey '76, director of community relations, emphasized that the tactics needed to make a land purchase differ from those needed on construction projects...
...provide the same kind of notification in Boston that we do in Cambridge," McCluskey said. The decision to develop plans for the Knafel Center were "totally different from the decision that was made to purchase the land that would be necessary to meet Harvard's physical space needs well into the future...
...recognition that Harvard has more complicated battles ahead in land development in the next few years perhaps has underscored for administrators the importance of community outreach in the next few years...