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After a suspicious abandoned package was reported by a staff member at the Science Center, administrators called fire and police departments and the building was evacuated from about 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Science Center Director Nona D. Strauss said this week...
...first and most obvious problem has to do with money. Unlike the newly fashionable lean and mean corporations, symphonic ensembles cannot readily strip down. It takes the same number of musicians -- about 100 -- to play a Strauss tone poem today as it did a century ago, and a major Beethoven symphony still requires almost an hour to perform. Orchestras raise funds through ticket sales (about 35% of their income), government funding and private donations, but income is hard pressed to keep up with expenditures even when an orchestra is performing to near capacity houses...
Canaday, Holworthy and Grays will undergo renovation during the spring and summer of 1994, as will the interiors of Hollis, Pennypacker and Stoughton. By the end of the summer of 1995, Wigglesworth and the interiors of Strauss and Massachusetts Hall should be marked in the "finished" column...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
Barbara C. Yearkes, a secretary in the Physics Department who serves as the other co-chair for the applied and physical sciences joint council, says that she feels that Science Center Director Strauss, who worked her way up from staff member to manager, is very sympathetic to employees' feeling of powerlessness. But not all managers feel the same way, she says...