Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American composers have never been so busy. The Louisville Orchestra and the Boston Symphony between them are lavishly commissioning new works. Latest patron: Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a "Festival of American Music." This month and in April Juilliard will perform 35 brand-new compositions, all but three of them commissioned by the school. The festival, says Juilliard's President William Schuman, "reaffirms [the school's] sense of responsibility toward the music of its own time." Last week the festival opened in Juilliard's University Heights auditorium...
...whole diplomatic corps, packed the theater. They sat down to witness a trying spectacle, as demanding on the audience as on the cast. Long Day's is less a drama than a dramatized autobiography. Its four long acts, all in one grimy set, take 4½ hours to perform. There is no plot, no story, no anecdote, nothing to relieve the dark, brooding atmosphere of tragedy that stretches from early one morning in 1912 to late the same night in the living room of the Tyrone family's summer home...
...H.D.C., or Aesthetic, approach to college drama emphasizes the need for competence and suggests that all those who wish to perform in H.D.C. productions should first go through a training period. This amounts to an attempt to legislate a return to the H.D.C.'s accredited actors and the comparative amateurs made clear, the snob appeal might well be strong, leading to the development of casts and out-casts...
...total energy of the visible particles alone adds up to 1,230 million electron volts. Since only 938 million electron volts can be released by turning a single particle into energy, more than one particle must have been annihilated. Physicists consider this an elegant proof that antiprotons really perform as theorists many years ago predicted that they would...
Once Mozart grew past the cute, kissable age, nobody paid any attention to him. The charming prodigy turned into a "pale, silent, colorless young man." Briefly under the patronage of Salzburg's archbishop, he ate with the servants; when he protested that he was not allowed to perform his music, he was thrown out bodily. His great love, Singer Aloysia Weber, preferred to marry a nonentity. "I did not know, you see," poor Aloysia would later mumble in her old age. "I only thought he was such a little...