Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...
Organized under the direction of Michael Strauss '59 and Michael MacDonald '60, the exhibit consists entirely of undergraduate-owned works of art, and includes paintings, drawing, graphic art, and sculpture. Its purpose is to encourage collecting and to demonstrate Harvard's activity in the art world...
...carrying out mission No. 2, Nixon may preside over televised hearings. Whether the committee's Cabinet members-Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss-will fracture Cabinet tradition by turning public investigators has not yet been decided...
...assembling the exhibit, the organizers were continually surprised by the extent and quality of material available, especially in the case of contemporary masters, as over half the works are of the twentieth century. Strauss, the founder of the Fine Arts Club, stated that "The exhibit is the first of its kind in several decades. Our aim is to stress the importance of this type of exhibition for two reasons--first, to show the great activity of Harvard in the art world, and second, to encourage collecting...