Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRATFORD, CONN.--If took an awfully long time for Russia to make major contributions to world literate and music. But when its time came, in the 1820's and 1830's, Russia exploded into global significance with a dazzling roster of great figures in both fields...
...exciting event to another, from one "sock on the jaw" (Chekhov's phrase) to another; he has turned his back on the technique of say, Ibsen and Strindberg. He has, in effect, turned from the solo concerto with orchestra to the more subtle and contrapuntal interplay of chamber music...
...like an orchestra conductor," says Christopher Columbus Kraft, flight operations director for the Apollo missions. "I don't write the music, I just make sure it comes out right." Chris Kraft's unlikely podium is the windowless Mission Operations Control Room on the third floor of Building 30 at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. His musicians are the 30 controllers who sit at four rows of gray computer consoles, monitoring some 1,500 constantly changing items of information registered on gauges, dials and meters. Kraft's primary instrument is a pair...
From 8 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday starting today the third floor of the Union will be transformed into a happy hunting ground. With rock music blaring in the background so they can't and won't have to talk, Summer School and Harvard-Radcliffe students will mix, dance, and bump together in blissful bacchanalation...
After an interminable intermission came Dvorak's Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, opus 81. Czechoslovakia may be under someone's thumb but Czech music is very much alive. This gorgeous piece was very well played. The cellist distinguished himself with a beautiful, full, resonant opening and the ensemble played with much more rhythmic unity and dynamic cohesion. Walter Trampler was superb throughout the Dvorak. There was an evident feeling for the ebb and flow of the beautiful melodies, lines which sing and soar over the often complex texture of this magnificent quintet. The new quality in their...