Word: scalese
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Friday night's guest soloist was Richard Kogan, winner of the 1974 HRO Concerto Competition. Kogan is a 19-year-old freshman who upon arrival last fall was immediately welcomed in musical circles as the most accomplished pianist at Harvard in many years. He has studied piano since age seven...
His facility with the technical demands of the Concerto would have been impressive in itself. Haydn was unaccustomed to writing virtuoso solo parts since he was not a virtuoso performer himself. But this concerto, written for (and perhaps with the aid of) the principal cellist of Prince Esterhazy's private...
Though an outsider might think that the truck drivers had designs on Farmer Brown's henhouse, they are actually talking about a roadside weighing station ("little white church") equipped with scales ("chicken coops") and manned by state inspectors ("hens").
Rodino has had a lifelong fondness for fiction and poetry (his favorite poem: Milton's On His Blindness). As a young man he wrote a poem with a final quatrain that places wry perspective on the work now before him: "For those of you who will with scales in...
Tuesday was a quiet, cold, almost apathetic day as Cambridge voters turned the scales, throwing out a liberal majority and replacing it with a coalition of Independents.