Word: performing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pianist-Conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is taking the London Symphony to the U.S., immediately arranged to have Oliver conduct his piece at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Andre Previn was shown the score and decided to perform it next season with the Houston Symphony. "I would have taken it to be the work of an adult," said Previn, 39. "The fact that it was written by a boy of 14 is amazing and frightening...
John Lennon of the Beatles has turned down an invitation to come to the Harvard Summer School for one week this summer to "perform and be seen," according to Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School...
...Stick of Dynamite." To Soul Singer Ben Branch, who was to perform at a Claiborne Temple rally later that evening, King made a special request: "I want you to sing that song Precious Lord *for me-sing it real pretty." When Chauffeur Solomon Jones naggingly advised King to don his topcoat against the evening's chill, the muscular Atlantan grinned and allowed: "O.K., I will...
White faced an inflammable situation when he heard that James Brown, king of soul music, was scheduled to perform in Boston Saturday night. To allow the event to occur without intervention would have been to set the stage for a major incident. All the ingredients were there: a large group of young blacks gathered together, King's murderer still on the loose, and the super-charged excitement of Brown's performance to provide the spark. To close the show down, on the other hand, was equally dangerous. There might easily have been a riot if Brown were not permitted...
...business leaders-estimates that, in the ten-year span ending in 1976, North America and Western Europe will need $1 trillion to expand pro duction. They will also need the funds to open new and costly programs to assault pollution and slums, exploit the resources of the oceans, and perform other basic tasks to make the civilized world more livable. The needs are great as well in countries that are stepping up toward industrialization. Iran needs $11.8 billion for its current five-year development program, started two weeks ago. In the next five years the Philippines will require $4 billion...