Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boasts a repertory of some 100 choral works, many New Englanders know it simply as the "Messiah Society." The complete Messiah, in fact, was given its U.S. premiere (1818) by the society, as were many of the great choral works, including Haydn's Creation (1819), Handel's Solomon (1855) and Mendelssohn's Elijah (1848), a coup that was achieved only after the society's president sought out Mendelssohn in London and convinced him that Boston was culturally ready for the work...
...LEONARD SOLOMON...
Little Herbie Solomon was, every body said, a square. While the other saxophone players at Brooklyn's Abra ham Lincoln High School were trying to imitate the new bebop style of Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Herbie was still practicing to old Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips records. You're not with it, Herbie, they said, and refused to let him play with the school's dance band...
Winthrop has combined a good defense, anchored by a large, fast line, with a varied offense led by quarterback Mitch Sikora and halfback Rick Solomon. Junior fullback-coach Joel Strang, end Jeff Neal, and Solomon have shared scoring honors...
...second and concluding act, the audience finds out why. The physicists were merely feigning madness, and the nurses were getting wise to their game. In fact Newton and Einstein are secret agents-for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., respectively-with orders to abduct King Solomon, a peerless physicist from an unnamed third country who has solved "the problem of gravitation." This invites some windy word slinging about how a scientist may best preserve his probity. Solomon convinces his colleagues that they should all stay in the madhouse, because "we physicists have to take back our knowledge." However, in an ironic...