Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour-long educational television film, to be directed by WGBH and distributed throughout the nation by the Educational Television Center of Ann Arbor, Mich. The purpose of the film is to demonstrate the training of a chorus from the beginning rehearsals to the final concert. Two-thirds of the project has already been filmed in rehearsals. The last third of the film will be taken from the live television performance of the concert...
When all is said and done, though, the core of the whole project is its roster of performers. The goal is to have a real repertory company at Stratford in the summer to put on exciting productions, which will then be toured during the rest of the year--thereby bringing Shakespeare to many parts of the country and providing extended employment for the actors, actresses and staff; and, in addition, to have an ancillary school, where the youngest talents of today can be helped to become leading Shakespearean practitioners of tomorrow...
What are some of the desired attributes of the ideal Stratford performer? He must, of course, have a God-given talent and a personal magnetism (which is unanalyzable). He needs a voice of wide range and many timbres. He must be able to speak and project with utter clarity at all dynamic levels. He should be able to convey the music and poetry of the text. He must know how to breathe properly (Shakespeare is unusually difficult in this regard). He needs a feeling for rhythm and tempo; and must be able to get at and put across the meaning...
Busy Maturity. Since Pampulha, Niemeyer has designed monuments and museums, schools and service stations, weekend cottages and water towers, arenas and airports, apartment houses and factories. In scale he ranges from Brasilia's tiny Dom Bosco roadside shrine to the huge Quintadinha project for Petropolis: a vast, curved apartment house 33 stories high and 1,380 ft. long, designed to house 5,700 families. With Costa he sketched the 1939 New York World's Fair Brazilian Pavilion. He became Brazil's delegate to the U.N.'s architectural board, designed a sector of West Berlin...
Kiwi-A. This sort of engine, which nuclear engineers consider a first step only, has been in development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...