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Nancy Boyd, soprano, lacked purity Friday evening and was often blemished by curious shifts of timbre. Technically, however, she was in complete control and in her final number picked her way through a twisting coloratura passage and then leapt to a ringing high D. Tenor Roger Childs was called on only once--to sing "The Roasted Cygnet's Song," which lies in a stratospheric register--and Childs produced the notes as well as the proper quality of a wailing lament...

Author: By Lloyd E. Levy, | Title: Harvard Glee Club | 3/25/1968 | See Source »

...creative frustration. There is an odor of psychopathic self-righteousness about many of the hardy annual protesters. I have long ago refused to sign those glib and predictable letters to the Times, including the one during the recent Israeli crisis when so many of these cause-happy activists leapt to the telephone and their pens. The same principle applies to the Viet Nam war, the very name of which has become a synonym for left-wing sanctimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: A Weakness for Causes | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Harvard jumpers Jim Sise, Ben Barnes, and John Mitchell leapt to 19, 28, and 29 in a field of 40 to put the team in seventh place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Drown Swimmers, 74-21; Ski Team Takes 5th at Williams | 2/21/1967 | See Source »

...allude Jim Moses and Bob Panoff, ran all the way back to the 40, 22 yards behind the line. Hit hard, and nearly on his back, he winged an amazing pass to halfback, Bob Sokolowski in the end zone. Sokolowski was covered closely by two Crimson defenders, but he leapt high into the air and came down with the ball for an incredible catch...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Yale Whips Punchless JV, 12-0 | 11/19/1966 | See Source »

Saws & Sirens. Passion is Penderecki's latest and most ambitious work. Now 33, he leapt into prominence seven years ago when he anonymously entered three compositions in a competition sponsored by the Polish Composer's Association -and walked off with first, second and third prizes. The first performances of his music in Poland were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: What's the Score? | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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