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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making ends meet in managing a symphony means knowing not only how to put a program together but how to hire a hall and scale seat prices, how to find a first cellist and how to wangle newspaper space. Helping small-town symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence...
...them. Out of this laborious screening has come a single compound that kills infant lampreys without hurting rainbow trout or bluegill sunfish. It is now being tested on other fish, and if it still looks good, next summer when the streams are low it will get a full-scale test...
...Yale's policy is not as simple as the innocent sounding 'normalcy" implies. President A. Whitney Griswold's alternative to expansion seems rather an attempt to make Yale approximate a large scale modern Athens: a place where a select group of gifted and highly motivated students will learn from the best teachers. An essential part of this will be a pleasant and comfortable environment, superficially known as "gracious living...
...seven pedals, Ralph Kirkpatrick presented representative pieces from Baroque masters of England, France, Holland, Germany and Italy. Many of these pieces were stylized dance forms, such as a Galliardo and a Pavana by England's William Byrd. The Pavana was a slowly paced, simple tune adorned with incredibly rapid scale passages and trills...
...famous names in British films went out of business when Ealing Studios (Tight Little Island, The Man in the White Suit) was sold to the BBC for ?400.000 ($1,120,000). BBC will go into moviemaking for TV on a huge scale...