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DISCOVERED. A previously unknown ARIA by Johann Sebastian Bach, among a collection of 18th century folio prints that had been removed from a library shortly before it was destroyed by fire last September; by a researcher at the Bach-Archiv foundation; in Weimar, Germany. The piece, for soprano with string or keyboard accompaniment, was written in 1713 when Bach was 28 and is the first composition by him unearthed since the 1975 discovery of new sections of the Goldberg Variations. Although the foundation says the aria isn't a major work, it considers it "a casual piece of exquisite quality...
...stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer...
Until late April, weekend regattas had been mere practice, but when the team faced down a string of regional qualifiers, it didn’t have room for inconsistency. Nor, for that matter, did the team demonstrate that it wasn’t up to the task. In a flurry of top finishes, Harvard qualified for all three national championship regattas, as the women’s team won the New England fleet-racing championship and the co-eds finished second in fleet racing and third in team racing. Regional honors followed almost immediately, as the team accrued a total...
...LaFlamme said he remembers Summers being less receptive to criticism before he came under his current string of criticism from faculty this spring...
...addition to the impact on student enrollment, the string of professor departures dating back to West has also taken a toll on the Af Am department’s public image...