Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tutor, of course, should perform the all-important advisory functions...
...recommendations and would again. If they disagreed with those of higher authority, the question of the judgment of that higher authority is not within my hands. That is a matter for public opinion ... I do not believe in the gag rule . . . If [a military man] does not perform his duties satisfactorily, he is subject to removal. If an Administration doesn't conduct its processes satisfactorily, every four years we have a referendum...
...would stand out"), Willson has just about run the musical gamut. At 17, he was playing flute and piccolo in Sousa's band; at 21 he was tootling the same instruments in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini. He started conducting when a bandleader friend offered to perform his Parade Fantastique, but told him he would have to lead it himself...
Violinist Diana Halprin last week got a break a lot of musicians wait a lifetime for -and it came at age six. She was engaged to play as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Picked from a field of 17 aspiring moppets, aged six to twelve, Diana will perform at a concert for children next season-the youngest violinist ever to play with the orchestra...
...sessions are frequent but seldom last more than 20 minutes. Games are invented to keep her interest, e.g., Diana shows her dolls the correct way to play, then plays for them herself. For next season's concert, Diana hopes to be able to handle a half-size violin, perform a movement from a Mozart or Mendelssohn concerto...