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Harbison, who lives in Cambridge, is one of the most accessible modern composers. He has all the proofs of success in today's shrunken musical world: a Pulitzer Prize, for his 1987 opera "The Flight into Egypt," a professorship and commissions from major orchestras. But success for a composer in 1995 is not what it was even 50 years ago; the audience for Harbison's music, like the audience at Paine Hall on Sunday, is mainly other musicians and musical scholars. The concert, which featured Harvard students performing three short chamber works, illustrated some of the reasons...
Disc-jockey, T.V. commentator, radio talk show host and, of course, Pulitzer Prize winning author Studs Terkel amused and amazed an audience of more than 200 at the ARCO Forum last night...
After stumbling badly in 1994 and spending much of 1995 fading from the public view in the face of the GOP revolution, he was given little chance of attaining this rare prize; indeed, only 14 out of 42 presidents have gained reelection...
Other bands included Ground Zero, Spatula, Chickita, Steamship of Beef, Blanket Envy, Three Asians and a Turk and Megasnake (which did not compete for the first-place prize because it included a non-Harvard student member...
DIED. CHARLES GORDONE, 70, playwright; of cancer; in College Station, Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...