Word: performed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competitors have already introduced for the new era. Engineers estimate that the X cars will average 26 m.p.g. The cars will list for $4,100 to $4,500 with automatic transmission as an option. Independent, noncompany drivers who have already tested the X cars say that they perform well...
Most of the performers give the interpretations they've chosen talented treatments, and the singing is impressive for a college production. Perhaps the fact that conservatory students or graduates take all but one of the main roles helps to explain that. But trying to take Vienna out of Strauss is like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair...
McCarty Erickson--Peter Middleton, flute Performing Avant-qarde flute techniques, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., 7 p.m., New England Conservatory Repertory Orchestra will perform works of Berlioz. Ravel, and Wagner...
...Ellis, George Benson, Joe Farrell, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. But in this decade, Jaki is content with what he calls "semi-retirement"; a weekly schedule that includes teaching at both the New England Conservatory and the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, as well as commuting to rehearse and perform with Apollo Stompers bands in both New York and Boston...
...president turned producer (The Cheap Show), refers to them as "the goddamn sweeps." He complains that "there shouldn't be such weeks in the TV calendar. They are artificial and destructive, and they contribute to the general feeling of paranoia." Like most other pernicious institutions, the sweeps still perform a function. Using two relatively small samples, Nielsen keeps regular tabs on how well the networks are doing. Some 1,200 families have the famous Nielsen meters attached to their sets to show which channel is being watched; 2,300 other families fill in diaries that tell not only what...