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...confusion within the U.S. government was to send the contaminated mail to a Congress that can't agree on anything even in the best of times. Be calm, our leaders told us. No need to panic, they insisted. But to a jittery America those pleas sounded like the orchestra that kept playing after the Titanic hit the iceberg...
...Jamil Hamad: From my bedroom window I can see a tank. And the shooting is as loud as if I'm sitting in an orchestra playing the 9th Symphony of Beethoven...
...celebration of excess. After receiving the College charter, seal and keys from former Mass. Governor John D. Long, Class of 1857, Lowell conferred honorary degrees on scholars from national and international institutions. The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed that night in Sanders Theatre, and the day ended with a firework display that lit up the October night...
...When I got out of the car and saw the orchestra playing on the green, it was just magical,” said Anita A. Summers, the mother of Harvard’s 27th President...
DIED. JENS NYGAARD, 69, defiantly unconventional founder and conductor of the Jupiter Symphony; of bone-marrow cancer; in New York City. Nygaard's sweeping knowledge of music gave rise to innovative, widely admired concert programs, often featuring works by Mozart (such as Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter," for which the orchestra was named). Nygaard raised money for the symphony himself; during one lean period, he paid each of his musicians with subway tokens and a book of sonnets...