Word: maters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida! I regret that the format did not permit presentation of one of the most pressing problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
...college. The procession of universities stretches from young Swansea through stripling Yale to aging Harvard and continues back through the centuries to ancient Paris and Bologna. When next our President travels to an academic convocation, he must expect to be derided as the man who changed Alma Mater to Foster Mother...
When Birmingham writes about his alma mater, Dartmouth, he brings more passion to his description--and much less objectivity. He raves for pages about Hanover's snowy wastes and Dartmouth's hairy-chested masculinity. In the realm of education, Birmingham praises Dartmouth's "revolutionary" three-term plan (which hundreds of colleges have) and its abandonment of high school learning techniques (which thousands of colleges have...
Monotony will easily creep into any setting of the Stabat Mater, since this long, grieving text for Good Friday offers little opportunity for the composer to vary tempo and feeling. Pergolesi made the job even harder for himself by writing his piece for soprano, alto and small chamber orchestra, very limited resources indeed, and his attempts to introduce contrasts succeed only partially. Because the chorus shared the 13 sections with the soloists in this performance, their refreshing fullness of tone overcame the monotony of the original score with a tasteful and perceptive arrangement...
...Stabat Mater's simplicity became a great virtue because of this change. While its melodies and accompaniment flow with ease and winning sweetness, its mourning draws back from florid tone-painting to achieve a simpler expression of grief. The introduction of the chorus was, indeed, not an intrusion, for Emily C. Romney, Assistant Conductor of the Choral Society, directed the group with simplicity and made the delightful melodies really sing...