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...business," he once advised, "you should open another business." As his enterprise grew, Ahmanson more and more tended to run it from a distance. After doctors recommended thrice-daily swims when he suffered a heart attack eleven years ago, Ahmanson kept office hours close to the pool at his Tudor mansion in suburban Los Angeles. Over the past decade, he visited his Beverly Hills headquarters no more than a dozen times...
Finally when all the seniors, their expectant families, old grads, and dignitaries have assembled in Tercentenary Theatre, President Pusey rising from his traditional Tudor chair will announce the award of Harvard College degrees...
...years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...
Cunningham's dance does demand a prepared or prewarned audience. Like the abstract artists who design his sets and costumes--Frank Stella, Warhol, and Rauschenberg--and the electronic musicians composing his scores--John Cage, David Tudor, and Earl Brown (husband of Carolyn Brown)--Cunningham explicitly denies traditional unities of the dance...
...year, was performed in white, tight-fitting rags and tatters on a dead-black stage dec orated by Pop Artist Andy Warhol with 25 large pillows made of aluminum foil. Inflated with helium, they floated about among the dancers (and occasionally into the audience) while electronic music by David Tudor wailed and chattered...