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...Aristotle's Ethics or Herman Kahn's thermonuclear theories. The music is just as uncompromising. A typical program may consist of a Bach suite, a Mozart piano concerto, and a trio of demanding modern works by Darius Milhaud, conducted by the arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle...
Unearthly music from the Environment and Sound Mobile drifted in through the windows of the Mills College Music Building where the old man sat, brittle and aching in his wheelchair. Outside, on a balcony, a college girl dressed in death-wish black and a free-form welder's helmet slithered through snail and snake dances, while on another balcony, a pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly...
...Quatrains for seven instruments and the speaking voice of his wife Madeleine. To the delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players were free to find their own tempos and moods while Milhaud sat by in his wheelchair to draw them into occasional togetherness with a stiff little sweep of his baton...
...crewcut, greying man of 60, Ainsworth has a withered right arm and leg, and can use his left arm only from the wrist down as a result of childhood polio. He finished high school in Waco, Texas, in a wheelchair, but set out soon afterward for San Francisco to cover the 1920 Democratic National Convention, at space rates, for the local News Tribune. As it happened, the Democrats merited precious little space for nominating James M. Cox. "I got about $3," recalls Ainsworth. But he went on working for papers from San Pedro to Atlanta before landing a job with...
...Yorkers noted the day proclaimed in tribute to "that grand citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...