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...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...
Slight intonation problems in the bassoon section marred the dramatic opening of the third movement, but as Wolff relaxed he completely controlled the movement. The notes seemed to spin out from his fingers leaving webs of music suspended momentarily in the theatre. His technique is so finished that he sounds like a mature virtuouso, though he actually turned 20 the day after the concert. Hugh Wolff is definitely going places. His performance Saturday was but one indication of that...
...Government stated that its primary evidence against the Vice President came from four witnesses. Two were political associates of Agnew's: Jerome B. Wolff, 55, chairman of the Maryland road commission during Agnew's tenure as Governor (1967-69), and I.H. ("Bud") Hammerman II, 49, described as "a highly successful real estate developer and mortgage banker," who also served as a prominent Agnew fund raiser. They testified that they cooperated with Agnew in a systematic scheme to shake down engineers and road-building contractors in return for favored treatment in contract awards. The other two witnesses were Contractors...
...required him to build a financially strong political organization." ∙ After Agnew was elected Governor, he told Hammerman that a "system" of "cash contributions" from favored contractors was a long-established practice in the statehouse. On Agnew's instructions, Hammerman arranged to find out from the newly appointed Wolff which firms had been awarded road-building contracts and to make certain that they paid their "contributions" to Hammerman. Wolff suggested that the three split such money evenly. "Governor Agnew at first replied that he did not see why Wolff should receive any share of the money, but he agreed...
...check earlier findings by Boston Psychiatrist Peter H. Wolff that Orientals blush more easily in response to alcohol than Westerners, the North Carolina team selected 48 test subjects, 24 Americans of European extraction and 24 Orientals, mostly Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans. All of them lived in central North Carolina, mostly around the college town of Chapel Hill, and were modest to moderate drinkers...