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Eleven Harvard students enrolled in Music 159r, "Composition in the Electronic Medium," will perform their final projects--replete with dogs barking and glass shattering--in a free show this Friday. But though the students have had time to prepare for the show--which is entitled "Music and Other Drama"--most foresee minor difficulties. "Having to solve the problems of live performance is a big challenge," says Naomi Pierce '85-6, a student in Music 159r. Another member of the class, Alisa Clements '87, agrees. "I still get nervous every time I play in class. Presenting to the public is more...
...BOARD has completely lost hold of its senses. Last week it voted to throw seven freshmen out of school for a year for making the Harvard computer print out "This computer test sucks" several dozen times in a row and perform other electronic tricks as a way of protesting the pesky QRR computer test. It was, said one insider, a prank that "any idiot could have done...
...youthful or specialized workers that they want, some employers are turning to senior citizens or the handicapped, among others. In Atlanta, one burger shop boasts an 80-year-old kitchen worker, while at a school for the deaf an information session on the jobs that deaf workers can effectively perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman: "We did it as a last resort. There...
When he arrived in Moscow last week, a Soviet official asked to see some identification. "My face is my passport," replied Vladimir Horowitz, 81, returning to his homeland for the first time since he fled to the West 61 years ago. The pianist, who is to perform two concerts in Moscow and Leningrad under a new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange, was reunited with his niece Elena, 70, and visited relatives and old friends including Elena, daughter of Composer Alexander Scriabin, who had idolized Horowitz since her youth. While authorities have given the maestro a less than warm welcome, Horowitz clearly...
...made it to the finals but we wanted to perform better," Flewelling said. "Even if we had won we would not have been satisfied with our performance...