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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heralds from this intellectual school of musicmaking. Trained at Swarthmore and Juilliard, Schickele started out as a composer of serious music. It was an accident of fate that led Schickele to begin composing humorous works. While studying at Juilliard in 1965, Schickele got some friends together and bought out Town Hall to perform some of their more irreverent compositions. So successful was this concert that it has turned into an annual tradition selling out now for nearly 23 years...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Peter Pipes a Pickled Parody | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

...grabs a church and paints with the church," wrote a poet of the cubist era, Blaise Cendrars. "He grabs a cow and paints with the cow . . . He paints with an oxtail/ With all the dirty passion of a little Jewish town/ With all the exacerbated sexuality of provincial Russia." Soutine? Strangely enough, no: Marc Chagall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985 | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

BEITA, Occupied West Bank--A holiday hike by Israeli teen-agers ended yesterday in a melee of shooting and stone-throwing in an Arab town in which a 14-year-old Israeli girl and two Palestinians were killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Girl, Two Arabs Killed in Riot | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...said some of the Arabs, apparently wanting to help, offered to lead the teen-agers out of the area through Beita, a town of about 12,000 people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Girl, Two Arabs Killed in Riot | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...Sunday service either, but he certainly had no idea of the nuances of a modern political happening. He wasn't neat, photogenic, or thin himself, and he had no awareness of the need for those qualities for others. But he was the minister of the largest church in town. So he got to introduce Jesse, right after "Shall We Gather By the River...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

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