Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity also will have the opportunity to settle last year's unanswered question in local hockey circles: just how good is Tufts. The Jumbos' powerful sextet ran over teams like M.I.T. and Boston University last year, but it should be another matter entirely when they play the Crimson this year on Dec. 17 and Feb. 22. Two other new opponents are Williams and Middlebury. The latter sextet may well prove dangerous, since it has managed to hold its own with teams like St. Lawrence and Clarkson the past couple of years...
London's loss of reserve over U.S. musicals is easier to understand after seeing the two local contestants: both make Ankles Away a triumph. The Buccaneer, Sandy Wilson's follow-up to The Boyfriend, concerns a wholesome boys' magzine and the competition from American comics. Salad Days, produced by the Bristol Old Vic who should know better, follows a young couple's escapades with flying saucers and a magical piano. Both the plots are thin, music routine, and puns atrocious. ("What shall I wear on a flying saucer?" "A tea gown, of course...
Another equally important function of the orchestra is the presentation of modern and often local compositions. Under Greenebaum's direction the orchestra gave a taut, electrifying performance of Howard Swanson's Short Symphony. Swanson has written a difficult, powerful work of almost flaming intensity, within a compact three movement structure. One of his favorite effect is to bring the orchestra in a slow cresendo to a fortissimo, then follow immediately with a quiet passage in the winds, without ever abandoning his driving tension. The orchestra was exciting tonally and always under Greenebaumn's tight control...
...career. The Serenade has a very pleasant pastoral character, using four French horns, but suffers from extreme lengthiness. Backed by such first chair palyers as flutist Cynthia Crain and cellist Stephen McGhee, conductor Greene baum exacted a virtuoso performance from the orchestra. It is a pleasure to have a local group with the ambition and the prowess of the Bach Society...
...Teacher? In Redford, Mich., after police installed electric traffic timers near a local school crossing at the repeated behest of anxious townspeople, four schoolteachers were ticketed for speeding within the first two weeks...