Word: maro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is always a Maronite Christian (a Roman Catholic sect with a liturgy of its own. tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite...
...anxiously await your reply. Sincerely, Edward C. Pinkus '59 Maro E. Leland...
...scarcely a dozen name musicians in the U.S. who are both able and willing to play avant-garde music. Because of their talent and their warm sympathy for struggling composers, the Ajemian sisters rank high among this handful. Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pianist Maro and Violinist Anahid Ajemian played a representative program, including works by Austrian Ernst Krenek, American Alan Hovhaness, the late German Kurt Weill and Spaniard Carlos Surinach. The Ajemians not only played without a fee but ended the evening owing a sizable printer's bill for programs...
...Both Maro, 30, and Anahid, 28, are traditionally trained musicians, graduates of the Juilliard School, and fully able to serve the U.S. concert circuit with the generous helpings of Brahms and Beethoven that keep audiences happy. But planning a program seems to them rather like planning a menu. If the artist does not include something from contemporary life, it is like leaving out the meat and potatoes. Their career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that they are of Armenian descent. While still a student at Juilliard, in 1942, Maro had to prepare a concerto and chose...
There is little money in modern music. The Ajemians think they are doing fine if a year's concert fees pay for their transportation, living expenses and special clothes. Says Anahid: "Luckily, we have husbands who make a decent living." But marriage has also complicated their rehearsal problems. Maro is married to an American Oil Co. chemist and lives in California, Anahid to an executive of Columbia Records and lives in Manhattan. The sisters have found a way out of this dilemma. Once they have decided, often via the mails, what works they will play in a coming concert...