Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first and, by many estimates (including its own), still the finest institution of higher learning in America will revel through a 350th anniversary fete. There will be, expectably, a stately convocation and more than 100 symposiums on topics ranging from the U.S. Constitution to the structure of a Beethoven string quartet. But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John...
...nation's most renowned young string ensembles played a Beethoven string quartet yesterday for three Harvard music professors who discussed the masterpiece before a capacity crowd of more than 400 in Paine Hall...
...World String Quartet began the symposium, "Approaches to a Musical Masterwork," with a performance of the German composer's String Quarter in F Major, Opus...
After repeated exclamations of "Bravo" had subsided, Peabody Professor of Music Lewis H. Lockwood began the discussion of the work by saying, "Anyone who knows Beethoven, knows this work represents part of a collective landmark in the history of string quartets...
...birthday bash--which includes symposia on 106 topics as diverse as Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major and the chemistry and physics of biological processes, three outdoor convocations and a closing ceremony in Soldiers Field Stadium that is expected to draw 27,000 people--will be the largest and costliest in Harvard history...