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...days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The High Sheriff of Middlesex County and the Sheriff of Suffolk County will precede--in ceremonial dress--the procession of alumni and dignitaries as they walk through the ranks of the graduating seniors. And President Pusey will preside from the same Tudor chair used on this solemn occasion since the 18th century...
...studious audiences are frequently shell-shocked by modern scores, last week resounded to the bombastic New York premiere of Music Walk with Dancer by avant-garde U.S. Composer John Cage. Composer Cage's electronic nightmare lasted ten minutes and required the services of Cage himself, Pianist David Tudor and Dancer Jill Johnston. Occasionally reading directions from slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned on an electric blender or belabored the piano...
...play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever he wants, play back-to-front, or even turn the score upside down. Pianist David Tudor, leading performer of aleatory scores, is so accustomed to their weird notation systems that, according to Polish-born Composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. he can "play the raisins in a slice of fruitcake." The heaviest concentration of aleatory composers is in Germany, where-in addition to Stockhausen-South Korean Composer Nam June...
...that E-A-R-L?" "That sounds like a non-existent title." "The what?" "Is it on an hour exam?" "Um, I know, just a minute, uh..." "The present Duke of Earl?" "I don't know, but he's probably a big man in Earl." "Was he a Tudor? No. A Stuart? No...Uh..." "How can a Duke by an Earl?" "I think some-one's pulling your...
Married. Tenley Albright, 26, shapely winner of two world's figure skating championships and the 1956 Olympic crown, now a resident in surgery at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital; and Tudor Gardiner, 43, son of a former Maine Governor and summa cum laude graduate in President Kennedy's Harvard class who abandoned the bar to work for a Ph.D. in classical philology; she for the first time, he for the second; in Boston...