Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American choral composers today, Professor Randall Thompson '20 certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include...
...relegates composition to reading periods or else to his summer vacations in Gstaad, a quiet Swiss village. "I need absolute seclusion when I compose," says Thompson. "I have to work intensively before I can write music with ease, much as an athlete must get into shape before he can perform adequately. If I am interrupted at all, I have to start over again...
...John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, and Siobhan McKenna will perform this summer for the Cambridge Drama Festival in an all-Shakespeare program. They will appear in a 2000-seat theater being built for the Metropolitan District Commission on Soldiers Field Road past the Stadium...
...French secretary when he was serving in Paris as a Deputy to France's Assembly. While his country was still the territory of Ubangi-Shari, the French frequently took him to task for treating his Pygmy plantation workers almost as slaves. He was not above pretending to perform a miracle when an eclipse of the sun occurred, nor did he try to dissuade his people from the idea that he was immortal. To the French, he seemed at times one of the most exasperating men in Africa...
...seven years President Eisenhower will not be on hand to throw out the season's first ball today when the unpromising Washington Senators face the Baltimore Orioles in the Presidential opener in Washington. Busy at his golfing retreat in Augusta, Ga., Ike has deputized Vice-President Nixon to perform...