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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's final performance of the season features Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Piston's Flute Concerto, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. With James Yannatos, conductor and violinst, Doriot A Dwyer, flutist, and Luise Vosgerchian, pianist. Sanders Theater. 8:30 pm. $2, $1.50 for students and senior citizens. For info...
...years ago. This weekend, Dwyer travels across the River from her home-away-from-home concert hall to solo in two large works presented in Friday night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert. The first work, a Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, was written for her by the late Walter Piston. Dwyer premiered the unrecorded work in 1972 with the BSO under Michael Tilson Thomas...
...large part, the vast improvement in air safety was brought about by the same factor that created the vast increase in air travel: the development of the jet airliner. Flying in a modern jet is ten times as safe as flying in the noisier and slower piston-en-gined aircraft of the mid-'50s. Over the years, airframes have become sturdier and engines not only much more powerful but much more reliable. The FAA, the manufacturers and the airlines poured millions into developing better flight control equipment?sophisticated radars and navigation aids. Military innovations were adopted for commercial...
Everyone knows that the Detroit Pistons are an unhappy basketball team. But to prefer jail to playing with them? For part of last week, that seemed to be the decision of Marvin Barnes, the $300,000-a-year Piston star. Barnes faces a jail term for violating parole, stemming from a 1974 conviction for assault, and he said he would rather begin serving his sentence now than perform with his team in the N.B.A. playoffs. His main gripe against the Pistons: for a player of his quality-and on a good night he can be incandescent-he does not play...
Like grizzled combat veterans, the survivors of the first day's run clustered last week at the bar in an Alexandria, Minn., lodge. Belting down tumblers of Jim Beam and Pabst, they compared horror stories: a burnt-out piston, a broken ski, a torn suspension, a collision with a tree. Their bright thermal suits were splotched with oil, eyes were red from fatigue, and windburned faces were scratched from encounters with barbed wire and flying stones. Some hobbled, others seemed permanently hunched from their battle. The weary combatants had just completed the opening day of one of sport...