Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader with rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...
...come a good indoor track team doesn't necessarily perform well outdoors? To begin with, there are six more events (discus, javelin, hammer, triple jump, 440-yard hurdles, and sprint relay) on the outdoor card, and in only one of these does Harvard have blue-chip points...
...that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra along with shorter pieces by Pierre Boulez and the late...
...covering sports, Brougham enjoys doing good. A tireless civic booster, he led a successful campaign to desegregate Seattle's golf courses and bowling alleys. Asked to raise money for the Olympic Games fund, he talked the Harlem Globetrotters into playing Seattle University, and persuaded Louis Armstrong to perform at half time...
...four undergraduates and a first-year law student -- have a contract to perform in Germany this summer at the Star Club, one of the headquarters of European rock 'n' roll. They would like to get an engagement on a ship going to Europe. The Star Club holds the European recording rights for such artists as Little Richard. Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Walker Brothers...