Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ambitious undertaking was The Play of Daniel, a 12th century music-drama that was unearthed in the British Museum. Elegantly staged in medieval setting and dress in a Manhattan church, Daniel was a solid off-Broadway hit of the 1959 season, won further acclaim during a 40-perform-ance tour of Europe. Today Pro Musica can boast a season of some 25 concerts in New York and 16 weeks on tour. In September the ensemble embarks on a seven-week State Department trip to Yugoslavia and Russia with an increased complement of six vocalists and 13 instrumentalists...
...York now has its pageant waggons too-set to perform everywhere from ye Bronx to ye Staten Island, and even before ye Bobby Wagner, the mayor. Belonging to Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, they are not quaint old tumbrels. They are a caravan of six trucks, led by a big, behemoth trailer truck that disassembles like a Chinese puzzle. In four hours, they collectively become a fully lighted, handsomely equipped Elizabethan theater. In addition to the free, summerlong Shakespeare that the festival group offers in its stationary theater in Central Park, the new road company is taking...
INDONESIA. The dinner menu is a table d'hote Indonesian feast (Kambing Masak Bugis, Ajam Panggang) served by candle light while Balinese and Sumatran dancers perform to the twangs and gongs of the gamelan orchestra...
...Coalition. In that statement lay the sum and substance of Scranton's campaign strategy. If he is to perform the near miracle of heading off Goldwater, he must convince the G.O.P. and the nation that 1) Barry would run so badly against President Johnson as to drag down and perhaps defeat Republican candidates at all levels, and 2) he, Bill Scranton, would have a far better chance against Johnson, might even win, and in any event would enhance the chances of other G.O.P. candidates...
...angry Fair exhibitors who charged that they were being taken to the cleaners by their cleaners. Some of them growled about exorbitant charges for such simple chores as unstopping a sink and emptying garbage. The most general complaint was against the high cost of temporary help, called in to perform specialized, emergency jobs. To get a carpenter on a short-term, hourly basis, exhibitors have to pay $11.51 an hour-and double time of $23.02 after...