Word: novas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Celebration in association with the Department for Romance Languages and Literatures will present a series of lectures in commemoration of the seventh centennial of Dante's birth. Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, will speak Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall on "Stil Nuovo, Ars Nova." Also speaking in the series will be Gianfranco Contini, of the University of Florence and Umberto Bosco, of the University of Rome...
...touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack of a serious challenger. Conservatives in the industrialized eastern provinces would much rather see Manitoba's able Premier Dufferin Roblin or Nova Scotia's Premier Robert Stanfield in charge of the party...
...five o'clock talk before a large audience in Holmes Hall, Rockefeller reported that during an interview with Premier Khrushchev in Moscow last summer, "Khrushchev made it clear that communism would one day sweep the world." The Soviet leader pointed to Nova G. Rockefeller '66, who was accompanying her father, and said "One day she will think...
...office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from "the lay and fringe public" with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week, in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced a new gimmick: he played a flute improvisation against...
...combo's "ethnic jazz" gained a wide audience. But in the mounting din of his drummers Mann found himself becoming "a sideman in my own group" and he fled to Brazil. He came back playing a new music that helped touch off the bossa-nova craze...