Word: swoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps God decided to pay them back. Their peerless outfielders Tom Agee and Ron Swoboda (a relic of the days of the hapless Mets) began making supernatural catches. Bonn Clendenon, who at the start of the season was a seller of Scripto pens, hit three home runs. Infielder Al Weis, a man who had never harmed anyone in his life, tied the last game with a home run. And when the Mets could not hit, they found other, more devious ways of arriving at first base. Not even the umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been...
...Krupsaw's portraits are especially well-executed; they have a serenity of mood and richness of tonality which reflect a well-trained eye and an expert craftsmanship, as in studies of Dr. Swoboda and Ansel Adams...
While the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance was below par last Friday night, the chief disappointment of Henry Swoboda's final appearance conducting the HRO was the quality of the program he selected. He played the same nineteenth century music, sometimes camouflaged by the names of composers from other centuries, that has characterized his two years here: and he compounded it with real, and bad, nineteenth century maunderings...
...Striking, indeed. It was not possible to determine what notes Voketaitis was singing in his low register because his intonation was so muddy down there. In loud passages requiring jumps, Miss Cornell tended to shriek. Their few stage gestures, made while rooted to their positions on either side of Swoboda, were ludicrous...
...audience gave Swoboda a standing ovation. I think it was a nice gesture. In his two years here, Swoboda, who is responsible for programming, has lead the HRO far along the slick path of musical cowardice. Conceiving the HRO as a minor-league Boston Symphony, he has fed it music easily comprehensible both to the orchestra members and to audiences of the Boston Symphony type. What is so frustrating and annoying is that he did not attempt more...