Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police used tear gas to break up a demonstration by striking teachers after Premier John Compton declared that pay raises would be disastrous to the nation's economy...
...even fellow players. His need for performance coaching is no less than the actor's, however. The music department--a small faculty consisting primarily of musicologists--began on the initiative of composer Leon Kirchner several years ago, to offer a course in analysis through performance. Organized for the premier musicians at Harvard interested in discussion and criticism of weekly ensemble performances, Music 180 was a bold step at instituting performing into the arts curriculum at Harvard. Music 180 is now over-subscribed and diluted by lesser musicians who have no recourse. Kirchner has pleaded with the department and administrators...
...major confrontation between the two countries is unlikely as long as Khmer Rouge guerrillas loyal to ousted Cambodian Premier Pol Pot continue fighting. After the invading Vietnamese succeeded last month in installing a pro-Hanoi regime in Phnom-Penh, it soon found itself tied down by guerrilla resistance in the Cambodian countryside...
...remain so as long as hundreds of Bhutto district leaders and party officials remain under arrest and barred from organizing demonstrations. Appeals for commutation of the sentence came from President Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Pope John Paul II. Another petitioner was Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey, the only country in modern times to have hanged its own Prime Minister by judicial process.* Ecevit offered Bhutto asylum if his life was spared...
...songs of John Denver may be heard along the Great Wall. When the country-and-western singer performed at the Kennedy Center gala for Teng Hsiao-p'ing, he won a new fan and the Vice Premier's autograph...