Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guest violinist Donald Weilerstein of the Cleveland String Quartet is back making a guest appearance with the group again this summer, and will perform in Schumann's rarely heard piano quartet. Also light works of Weber Leon Kirsohner, music professor at Harvard and director of the Chamber players...
...Minister Jagjivan Ram as Interim Prime Minister. Rather than risk a party quarrel, Mrs. Gandhi decided to stay on. Last week she was again rebuffed when a Supreme Court vacation judge issued a conditional rather than an unconditional stay pending her appeal. The ruling stipulated that Mrs. Gandhi could perform her duties as Prime Minister but denied her the right to vote in Parliament or draw her salary for her seat...
Entertainment. Classic Square entertainment involves someone who just finds an open space, puts out a bucket or guitar case for contributions, and begins to perform, expecting to draw a crowd. These days there are two prime spots for this sort of thing: Brattle Square, usually late in the afternoon or early at night, and the front door of the Coop, a couple of hours after closing time. Lately a group of jugglers have been using the Brattle Square spot and they are okay if you like jugglers. The Coop location has weird acoustics because of its cave-like qualities...
...three-day event was first introduced at the Olympics in 1912 under the name "The Military." The first day is the Dressage test which challenges the rider and horse to perform a series of some 20 tricky maneuvers, "to show the horse is calm and precise on the parade ground...
...Brazil, he was considered so valuable that the government once forbade him to play for a foreign team. In Africa, he was so imposing a legend that a cease-fire was called during the Biafran war so that both sides could watch him perform. But in the U.S., where the game of soccer has been played more for kicks than major-league cash, he is something of an anomaly. So Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known almost everywhere as Pelé, made his debut last week for the New York Cosmos, seeking by his message to establish American credibility...