Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private, nonpartisan organization of 200 businessmen and educators, calls for a "sweeping renovation" of the states' obsolescent machinery. "The 50 legislatures are beset by crucial issues," says the committee in an 85-page study of American states, "but few are organized, equipped, qualified, or even empowered to perform their policy functions with distinction." Unless they shape up, it adds, the states will be unable to counter "any tendency toward monolithic centralization of power in the national government...
...dramatist writes one play, a director produces another, the actors perform a third, and the audience views yet a different one. Jean Anouilh's The Cavern is a play-within-a-play which blends these four perspectives into...
Leon Kirchner and Chamber Ensemble will perform at the Harvard Summer School Monday Night Concert Series, July 31, at 8.30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at the Loeb Drama Center Box Office, 64 Brattle Street...
...programs of the Concert Series get more adventurous, attendance at Sanders becomes less enthusiastic, (though those who do come are as responsive as ever). This is too bad, since a lot of important but seldom-performed music is being played. The Galimir group are excellent exponents of works like the Sessions and Schoenberg, and it is well worth anybody's while to hear them perform...
Having bowed to tradition in the Bach, the Laredos proceeded to perform the contemporary Sonata Concertante of Kirchner. This is a long work, full of virtuosic writing for the two instruments. Long, cadenza-like solo passages occur throughout, mostly for the violin. One of these--a broad, violin-spanning "theme" in double stops--opens the work and recurs periodically throughout the sonata's two movements, lending the work a somewhat cyclical character. There is nothing small about this piece, and the Laredos performed it with passion, intensity and brillance...