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...says Pat, "but I never cancel out." For much of the evening Nixon was obsessed with trying to work a yoyo up on the stage. "It hurt me to see it," said one of Pat's aides. "He ignored her all evening while he messed with that silly yo-yo." Pat offered no complaint. "I just don't tell all," she says...
...coordination," the arts at Harvard remained very compartmentalized, with little academic credit given for students' artistic work. And music, where performance traditionally is nearly all extra-curricular, was the only area of the arts where performances were consistently good. At the top of the long list of stars were Yo-Yo Ma '76, a phenomenal cellist, and Gerry Moshell, most notably as conductor of the Lowell House opera's "Ariadne Auf Nauxos," in his last year as a Harvard music tutor...
Some venturesome souls achieve fame by scaling the world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves...
...piano trios, the E Flat is the more lyrical. In it Schubert composed one of his most exquisite melodies. This melody, slow and yearning in the second movement, Andante con moto, recurs in the fourth movement, Allegro moderato, transforms to major, and ends the trio grandly. Kogan, Chang, and Yo-Yo Ma's performance of the Trio transfixed the audience...
Richard Kogan, piano; Lynn Chang, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata; Schubert: Trio in E-Flat. Free. Saturday, April 27, 8:30 p.m.DUNSTER LIBRARY...