Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most active members in the Club's history was Leonard Bernstein '39, protege of Serge Koussevitzky and well-known conductor and composer, who headed the program committee and managed to perform at all but one of the regular meetings of the Club in the year 1936-37 and played two works, including one of his own compositions, at the annual concert that year...
...program being presented Friday night includes two Boston premieres: Haydn's 77th Symphony and the Overture to Schubert's Opera "Alfonso and Estrella." The Radcliffe Dance Group, under Anne A. Cameron's direction, will perform in several battles including one of the Orchestra's perennial stand-bys, the "Variations on Mary Had A Little Lamb," by Edward Ballantine '05, associate professor of Music emeritus. Other works to be performed are Danius Milhaud's modern arrangement of Couperin's "Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe...
Perhaps the most valuable part of the Orchestra's year to its members has been the traditional eight-reading rehearsals. During these sessions, music is played which the Orchetra could not hope to perform in public because of its difficulty...
...fact that the Crimson Varsity shell broke a course record in beating Princeton Saturday doesn't seem to be enough to give Tom Bolles much confidence about treating Cornell the same way tomorrow. Apparently you never know how your crew is going to perform the next time...
...knew that the California situation was even more precarious. At a Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath had ended his speech by asserting that Truman was trying his best "to do what he thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt is calling to him from heaven to perform . . . His heart is just as sincere, his purposes are fought for just as "courageously, his stand is for the right. .. Can we ask for more than this in a leadership?" The strongly pro-Eisenhower crowd, clanking silverware on the wineglasses, roared back...