Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the world of musical stage productions is an entirely different sphere of musical activity: the world of the House concert. Here the music is produced on an entirely different scale, concentrating on solo recital, chamber music and, at largest, chamber chorus...
This can be most readily seen in the phenomenon of Harvard musical stage productions. Since Cosi fantutte at Leverett two years ago, there has been a steady escalation in the size and difficulty of productions. Last year there were productions of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw: this year it was hard to decide whether to be more impressed by Leverett's production of The Marriage of Figaro or the Bach Society-Music Club concert performance of Fidelio. The more ambitions these projects become, the more time, money...
...Third Stage...
...approach signifies the beginning of a third stage in the development of the New Left organization. At the beginning, following its break with the parent League for Industrial Democracy. SDS stressed community organizing among people excluded from the system; mainly Negroes and poor whites. Members opened a Community Union Project in Newark, financed by the United Auto Workers, and built similar Economic Research and Action Projects (ERAP) in other cities. Since 1965, however, SDS has concentrated almost entirely on students, and its main issues have been the war in Vietnam, the draft and "student power." During this second stage...
...constituencies to which SDS now hopes to appeal are unlike those it worked with in its organizing activities during the first stage of the movement--they are primarily people involved in the system, rather than those frozen out of it. SDS must speak, Carl Davidson argues, primari Iy to the working class and "new working class," while continuing to recognize the problems of the underclass (the poor, disabled and chronically unemployed). The traditional always been a source of political power for radical movements. But the number of people in this class is declining relative to the new working class -- white...