Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friends of the late Mark de Wolfe Howe have made an anonymous $100,000 gift to Miles College in Birmingham, Ala. to memorialize the former Harvard professor's interest in civil rights...
...surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...
Ives wrote most of his music between 1890 and 1922. Logically, he should have been the father of a whole school of progressive American composers. In fact, his music was rejected by his contemporaries and did not begin to receive performance and recognition until the late 1930's. Even with the Ives revival of the past decade, performances of his works are still relatively infrequent...
Down at a table near the counter are six guys just off the late shift. Two tables away are a Harvard student and his girl. He is pounding out a solo with his fingers. His girl is talking about God. The boy keeps pounding, moving, the head low, the fingers hard and calloused on the formica. For five minutes, this crazy drum solo. Then he stops, leans over, and kisses his girl. The six leer...
...Speed is an essential factor in pro ball,' he told us and asked us to go down to Harvard Stadium at 9 a.m. the next morning so he could time us. Well, I was a little late and by the time I arrived Steve and Dave had already been clocked once for 40 yards. I wasn't quite awake yet and I wanted to make sure I was loose, so I started these exercises we use in track. Dave told me later that the scout, watching impatiently half-way down the field, quietly remarked. 'This kid's a real showboat...