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...twirlers combined to keep Harvard third-base coach Jim Stoeckel busy by issuing 12 free passes and helping the runners on their way with a trio of wild pitches...
...students had little trouble gaining access to Massachusetts Hall, but a battallion of secretaries blocked them from seeing the birthday boy. No, they were told, they could not hand-deliver the cake. Disappointed, they trio left the cake with a birthday card and returned to the dorm...
...next afternoon, a visitor knocked on the door of the trio's Greenough suite. One of the three opened the door, and to her surprise, found Bok himself, toting a batch of chocolate chip cookies that he and his youngest daughter had made. The president thanked the three for their gift, chatted for a while, and then headed back to his office...
This is harder to do in a piano trio than in, say, a string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...
Between tours (they play about 120 concerts a year), the trio and their families are scarcely neighbors. Pressler is based in Bloomington, Ind., where he teaches at Indiana University. Greenhouse and Cohen are both on the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, but Greenhouse lives in Setauket, Long Island, Cohen in Manhattan. With luck, Greenhouse gets in some sailing, and Cohen plays tennis or tends his plants (he is a former member of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America). Pressler's recreation? "Playing and teaching, playing and teaching...