Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what will probably be the last Yale concert for the duration, some 125 members of the two singing groups will perform at 8:30 o'clock Friday night in Woolsey Hall...
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and so, to a qualified extent, hath the Radcliffe Choral Society. Tonight, to get the season under way, the whole Society (approximately 180 strong, count them yourself) will perform free gratis in Sanders, and, in addition, the long-awaited first fruits of the Radcliffe Orchestra-Pierian Sodality merger will be on display. The program should be solace and balm for the exam-weary, and a chance to hear some good but seldom performed choral works. Under the enthusiastic guidance of "Woody" and "Mal" Holmes, Harvard and Radcliffe are among the few colleges...
...foots a good part of the New Opera Company's budget. But broad-faced Yolanda Mero-lrion runs the show. She makes the final choices for the casts from scores of names selected by the Company's Board of Auditions. She decides which operas the Company will perform, picks its conductors, artistic and stage directors, ballet masters and coaches...
Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus. There is nothing unique about a man's being able to perform major surgery without basic training in anatomy, physiology and pathology. As a Navy Hospital Corpsman, I assisted at surgery and could have done a neat appendectomy many years before I was licensed as a physician...
...asked to imagine Mr. sycamore turning into a tree. True, the play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...