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Under conductor Thomas G. Everett, the Concert Band launched into Giovanni Gabrieli's brief Canzon septimi toni No. 2 (1597) for brass ensemble. Gabrieli designed the work as open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...
...university admissions programs that favor minority applicants violate the civil rights of whites? The "reverse discrimination" question came before the Supreme Court two years ago in the case of Marco DeFunis, who had sued the University of Washington Law School for barring him while accepting a minority student with lower test scores than his. But DeFunis, who had been admitted by order of a lower court, had nearly finished his studies by the time his case reached the Supreme Court, and so the Justices declined to make a ruling. Since then several similar cases have come before the lower courts...
...balmy summer evening, the plaza at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly...
Enhancing the cause of radical party chic is Deputy Marco Pannella, an ardent social reformer whose fasts over issues ranging from abortion to free speech have become a continuing press event in Italy. The leftist, civil libertarian radicals, who picked up four seats in the chamber, were running nationally for the first time, as were the former "extraparliamentarians," a melange of revolutionary Marxist splinter groups who banded together a few weeks before the election. Having rendered their name a misnomer by running for and winning six seats, the extraparliamentarians now call themselves Proletarian Democrats. The most prominent...
What's all this "scandal" fussing about? Bribery has been a common (and timehonored) practice as far back as Marco Polo and even before that. I find it surprising that Americans still cling to illusions of innocence after the years of Viet Nam, Watergate and intelligence investigations. Won't this country ever grow up and realize there is rottenness in the world...