Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Toscanini Chamber Orchestra. Presents aconcert featuring works of Vivaldi, Haydn,Beethoven and Dvorak. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m.Free...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Will perform Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Mendelssohn's Symphhony No. 3 "Scottish" and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information...
Name: Helen French '97. Position: Member of the Bach Society Orchestra and experienced posterer. She admits that she started postering at 8:30 in the morning because now "[she] has the right to take off posters on top of [hers]." And indeed she did. Actually, she only removed posters from groups who "consistently posters over [hers]." French says that postering is especially important to Bach Soc because they "spend a lot of money on posters and their existence depends on people coming to concerts...
There were other occasions, of course. An evening of dark Bacardi and Southern Comfort, gulped from miniature porcelain teacups in Grays, for example. As a first-year I played a certain House's waltz with a certain orchestra, and when the champagne ran out a certain master offered some of his own stock with the caveat, "Just don't tell anyone where...
...similar waltz the following year led to more dire consequences. The tastes of that certain orchestra had surpassed champagne to more concentrated pleasures such as cognac and single-malt Scotch...