Word: performance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic Clifton Fadiman read Novelist James Farrell's No Star Is Lost and wrote (in The New Yorker): "If his editors will only strap him down tight, shoot him full of morphine, and, while he is helpless, perform some major operations not on him but on his prose, Mr. Farrell's effectiveness will increase, and so will the number of his readers." Either the publishers let Fadiman's prayer go unheeded or Farrell refused to submit to the operation. More than ten years and twelve books later, the Farrell prose is still a better cure for insomnia...
Rugby coach Ed Callanan will see for the first time how his squad can perform against opposition when it meets an MIT team on the House football field at 3 p.m. today...
...program will consist of contemporary orchestral works by Boston composers. The featured work will be the first performance of Berger's "The Exiles," a cantata written in 1943. Lukas Foss, piano soloist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform his piano concerto...
...Salome" is an extremely orchestral opera, with a great deal of writing for brass and woodwinds. It was a treat to hear the Met Orchestra, which at times finds no difficulty in muffling simple oom-pah-pah accompaniments, perform such a difficult score so well...
Tonight and tomorrow evening, a select group of the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing the choral finale of the Mahler Second Symphony under the direction of Leonard Bernstein '39. Only those who sang in last year's performance of this number will perform. Asked by Bernstein to come only a month ago, the Glee Club has practiced hard for this special occasion...