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JACQUELINE DU PRÉ: HAYDN'S CELLO CONCERTO IN C and BOCCHERINI'S CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT (Angel). Israeli Daniel Barenboim has earned a reputation as a first-rank pianist, and his British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed...
...request--to note the possibility of Independent Study in the course catalogue--was reportedly met with vigorous objections from Registrar Robert Shenton. The Independent Study issue is still open and HPC President Henry Norr is unwilling to bury his proposal that the program be opened to students in all rank lists, sophomores as well as juniors and seniors. But that proposal is likely never to reach the Faculty floor; several administators have been suggesting that Independent Study is already a kind of iceberg and that if the Faculty knew what was going on, it would be likely to tighten...
...Chicago (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week the San Francisco Symphony announced that it had bagged Ozawa for itself, starting in the fall of 1970. Retiring Viennese Conductor Josef Krips, 65, who in the past five years has rebuilt San Francisco into one of the nation's solid second-rank ensembles, was largely responsible for the choice of his successor. "Among the younger generation," said Krips, "Ozawa is the finest...
Harvard's rules on academic policy allow considerable leeway, and so it is seldom that departments bring their affairs to the full Faculty. When questions of policy or appointments arise within a department, the senior members (those with permanent rank) make the decisions. The departments always initiate recommendations for appointments within their discipline. These decisions are rubberstamped by the Dean and Governing Boards when non-permanent Faculty members are concerned; decisions on permanent status are usually subject to favorable review by ad hoc committees, consisting of scholars outside the nominating department and appointed by the Dean. The Corporation (the President...
...without sacrificing its urbane, low-keyed style. It manages to keep up with fast-breaking news and avoid the big, overblown headlines and shoddy sensationalism too often endemic to the afternoon. The Star is still the No. 2 paper in Washington, but in almost any other city it would rank...