Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better. We're looking for a man who'll write to script." That sort of remark annoys Jerry Goldsmith. Says he: "There are damn few composers alive or deceased who have had the opportunity we have had to experiment with atonality and counterpoint." Next month Goldsmith will perform his themes from The Wind and the Lion, The Blue Max and The Waltons in London's Royal Albert Hall...
...group, there are two orchestras, the University band (composed of a concert wind ensemble and marching band), and a 20-member jazz band. The various vocal organizations include the Harvard Glee Club (a traditional men's chorus of about 75 which appears occasionally with women's college choruses to perform a standard mixed chorus repertoire), the Collegium Musicum, which will perform Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony this year, the University church choir, the Radcliffe Choral Society, a newly formed women's chorus, the Krokodiloes and the Kuumba singers, a group of black vocalists specializing in gospel music...
Ideal parent sounds more like it. The beauty of the system is that proctors are not supposed to criticize, discipline, or form your character. You are too old for that now. The proctor is supposed to perform services for mature young adults. He or she may bake cookies for the dorm every week. And buy beer for the dorm every couple of nights. And settle roommate disputes. And advise freshmen on where to get laid. The proctor is a camp counselor with a Harvard degree and a tweed suit. A person who's on the way up and who wants...
...Monday night, the Players will present Compositions of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and Berio in Sanders Theater at 8:30. This will be the last time this season to hear the group perform chamber works--next week's gala finale will feature a massive Schumann work for chorus and orchestra...
There is the elephant trainer who has lost his elephant and must get through his act using a frog instead. The trainer looms over the little fellow, urging him through his paces with a whip, trying to get the frog to perform such evergreen elephant stunts as Roll Over and Find the Peanut...