Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David H. Davis 2G won the George Arthur Knight prize and income from the fund for his string quartet. Frederic A. Rzewski '58 received honorable mention in the competition...
Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich...
...Lees finished his studies two years ago, by now is far better established than most colleagues of his age. His works have been performed in six countries; his String Quartet No. 1 has been played by several ensembles, including the Budapest Quartet; his Profile for Orchestra has been broadcast by the NBC Symphony. Perhaps the best indicator of success: Lees is published by England's influential Boosey and Hawkes (publisher of Richard Strauss, Bartok, Stravinsky, Copland). The publishers chose him while scouting around for a young man who could deliver successful works as consistently as has the star discovery...
Cornell will pose the chief threat to the varsity's undefeated string, while Penn figures to be an also-ran. In the indoor Heptagonal meet, which the Crimson won, Cornell came in three points behind, while Penn ran a poor seventh in the nineteam meet...
...looks for Greece, early Rome, most of the Middle Ages, half of Renaissance and Reformation, Russia from 1801 to 1917, the Tudors, the Stuarts, Canada, Argentina, Venezuela, Ireland, the American Revolution, the South, American Intellectual History, and Oceanic History, to mention only a few. A few departures, several second string professors, some gaps in the department--these can be tolerated. But the present deluge is somewhat frightening. Still, the history major will carry on--unloved, unwanted, and now uneducated--pity the poor history major...