Word: performance
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Folksinger Joan Baez will perform in Harvard Stadium on Tuesday August 19, beginning the first concert series in the Stadium's 66-year history...
...careful use of discipline is the heart of several recent approaches. Adopting the principles of reinforcement therapy (TIME, July 11), psychologists at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute put autistic children through a demanding series of exercises. The therapist waits for them to perform a small act as a normal child would, then quickly rewards them with praise and a few bits of cereal or an M & M candy. If they revert to autistic behavior, he promptly says "No," and may even strike them. After literally hundreds of repetitions, the rewardable behavior begins to replace autistic distraction, and the children...
...country without a decent concert hall no one can explain. Most of us are tired of quarters for violin, cello, piano and street noises and tired of wiping out neighbors' sweat off our knees. It is a disgrace to force any musicians of merit to attempt to perform in the decrepit fire trap...
...very enjoyable concert, performed in unpleasant surroundings. It is exciting and edifying to hear professional musicians perform at a school which either openly or covertly discourages musical performance. If Harvard could acquire an auditorium for such performances, perhaps it could acquire more such performers to fill...
...nineteenth century found Bach's music difficult to perform in the Romantic style-their alternating piano-forte, their rubato, their sharp dynamic contrasts. If Bach's was difficult to adapt to their style, the nineteenth century decided, it was Bach's fault...