Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state dinner for Mexican President Lopez Portillo, and the Juilliard String Quartet, which played during Inaugural festivities in the East Room. After the guests had departed. Carter apologized to the quartet for not being able to give his full attention to the music and asked if they would perform an encore. Following a stirring rendition of a movement of Haydn's Opus 20, No. 1, Carter said, "You know, this is the kind of music that brings tears to the eyes...
...soon as she had released her order, Chou Yang announced from his high office in the Ministry of Culture that he was sending the very company she was working with to Hong Kong to perform Swan Lake! She was outraged but helpless. [Chou Yang reportedly maligned] The Red Detachment as an "infant in swaddling bands sucking its thumb" and an "ugly daughter...
...long after she arrived. How could she tell? He sought her out personally and offered her a ticket to a lecture he was to give at the Marxist-Leninist Institute. Startled and awestruck, she declined, then swiftly conquered her shyness, accepted the ticket, and went to watch him perform...
Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers perform the medley that made them famous. Busch-Reisinger Museum, noon...
...gain a particular insight or understand a particular problem, and then presenting it to the students in a way that will enable them to get over the same difficulties. The best way to teach law is to have students who are asking the right questions. I press students to perform at their highest capacity...