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...meaningful challenge to his authority, but the response is reflex and relentless when the defial comes from a Kennedy. True to form, scarcely 48 hours after Robert F. Kennedy became an open rival for the presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made it clear that he was prepared to use all of his immense powers and political wiles to thwart his adversary...
...portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...
...ensemble. Occasionally his insistence backfired, as in the final chorus of "ewiges Feuer" (BWV 34) where the sopranos had to force and went noticably sharp. Most of the choruses were full of dramatic dynamic contrasts, crescendi and decrescendi. And Kirchner had no qualms about taking expressive liberties with the tempo...
...parts. Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen displayed a voice that was light, supple and unforced, but nonetheless somewhat diminutive--potentially something of a problem in Sanders Theatre. But Kirchner kept the instrumentalists down to a virtuosic pianissimo, and in spite of the busyness of the parts and his own brisk tempo, the aria was a model of balance and clarity...
...shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical of her voice range. Her aria in BWV 34 was a minor battle for tempo, she pulling back, Kirchner trying to move things forward...