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...Grad Chorale always includes a commissioned work on its programs and always by a composer within the Harvard community. Two of John Stewart's pieces were given premieres last Friday: his Pie Jesu (1965) and The Windhover (1971), a setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem. The latter was by far the better piece. Beginning and ending with female voices only in tone clusters, it calls for seven winds and string bass--all of which were first rate. There is some use of klangfarbenmelodie, the production of a melodic line with varied tone colors, but only with the instruments...
...seventh, Jim Kiley belied a solo home run and in the eighth, UMass threatened as the Redmen loaded the bases on two singles and a walk before anyone was out. With speedster Charlie Manley on third, Kelly struck out the Redmen's top hitter, Dan Esposito, Then after one strike, Mark Palau bunted foul twice with Manley stealing home. Kelly finished the rally by whiffing Ed McMahon...
With two out in the seventh, DeMichele walked and scored from first on a deep drive by Pete Varney and ??? the game. Varney then scored the winning ??lly on a single to center that Manley misjudged...
...only danger came in the seventh when Manley reached first on an error and advanced to third when a pick off threw hit his helmet. On the next pitch, Nickens pitched with the runner stealing home. Unable to reach the ball with his bat. UMass's Jack Conroy threw his body at Varney's legs, trying to knock over the 230-lb, catcher. Needless to say he failed, and Manley was out by several yards...
...Redmen led the Yankee conference in hitting with a .288 team average en route to a 21-8 record. Charlie Manley ended up with a .391 mark to lead the squad. Only a freshman, Manley was the most exciting player to appear at UMass in years, smashing the school's stolen base record with...