Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CATHERINE TOLSTOY ARAPOFF Quincy, Mass...
FRITZ DONOVAN Harvard College Cambridge, Mass...
...From the festival (where he was a great hit in "a purple suit amid a riot of bougainvillaea and frangipani") he jumped to the U.S., spent a hungry year in Manhattan before he "qualified before the gods and goddesses of the dance" at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., and landed a role in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. He promptly wooed a featured dancer in the show, Carmen de Lavallade ("I thought she was a snob, and I liked that; I like to go after them; I don't like them to go after...
Martin: Sacred Mass for the Kings of France (soloists and Les Chanteurs de Saint-Eustache conducted by the composer; Concord). One of the most elaborate of modern musical hoaxes in a reverent and earsplitting performance. Originally hailed as a newly discovered coronation Mass by 17th century Composer Etienne Moulinié, the work was presented in 1951 in Paris' Basilica of St. Denis before a distinguished audience as part of Paris' celebration of its 2,000th birthday (breathed one critic: "Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant"). When a musicologist belatedly...
...polio vaccine during April was higher than the available supply. Drug companies, however, have recently stepped up production to meet this demand. "But the supply available to us is certainly not unlimited, and a few might be disappointed," Wells continued. "If the supply lasts, we hope to hold mass inoculations again during the first week of June...