Word: precisionism
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This crew is experienced, powerful, and has precision timing. It is to be noted that Navy's only narrow squeak came from Harvard when the current was strong and the water choppy. The Schuylkill River is an unpredictable river which may give trouble.
On Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and...
The junior varsity race was run off half an hour earlier, through calmer water, after the start had been delayed by a loose stabilizing fin on Harvard's shell. But once under way the J.V. crew rowed a precision race. Stroked by Eric Oddleifson, they quickly dropped their opening 40...
In the junglelike clutter and heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible...
Yesterday's concert again gave proof that the association of such men has borne fruit. A performance of Schubert's 7th Symphony revealed a woodwind section whose ensemble has reached such a standard that the duets and tries among the first flute, clarinet, and oboe resulted in those delicate tonal...