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There were three blind mice, three little pigs and three Stooges. And after tonight, there will have been three Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra subscription concerts. Perhaps coincidentally, conductor Maestro James Yannatos will lead the Orchestra as they play Pistons Symphony No. 3 as well as Don Juan by Strauss. But wait. That's not all. Professor Mark Devoto and Professor Emeritus Eliot Forbes will give a pre-concert lecture. Sanders Theatre. Tickets 496-2222. Concert at 8 p.m., lecture at 7 p.m. $8-$13 general, $6-$10 for students...
...simply suggesting that when solemn wise men like Admiral Lewis Strauss, Staff Warren and General Leslie Grove made decisions in those years their last concern was the interests of downwinders. In my view that set the tone. There was a deep reluctance to do anything that might look timid or weak...
...live in Charleston, S.C., Margot Strauss Freudenberg, 91, is no less a legend than Fort Sumpter or Rainbow Row, though she arrived in Charleston in 1940, a humble immigrant from Hannover, Germany. Trained as a physical therapist, she established a private practice and worked at clinics and hospitals. In 1957 at the city's Roper Hospital, a doctor on rounds couldn't communicate with a critically ill Dutch sailor and enlisted her as a translator. The sailor didn't understand Freudenberg's German any better than he did the doctor's English. Alarmed by the incident, Freudenberg went on local...
...second half of the performance was entirely devoted to Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica. When the piece was first performed Strauss was criticized for his tastelessness to compose a symphony about the banal day of a domestic household. The program notes state that a critic even went so far as to call it a "joke in bad taste." Strauss's reply was "I did not mean to make fun. What can be more serious a matter than married life?" Strauss's domestic life is anything but dull. In the span of 24 hours the composer had to deal with...
...Domestica into a pre-Stravinsky and Debussy prototype. Many arpeggios sound very much like those of Debussy. And it is true that some percussion lines sound so much like The Rite of Spring that a timpani-player might have to hold himself back in order to play it as Strauss intended...