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...Haydn's 250th birthday is celebrated this week, there are signs that his operas' long spell on the shelf is nearing an end. Through the dedicated efforts of scholars like the indefatigable H.C. Robbins Landon and institutions like the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne, many previously unpublished operas have been carefully edited and issued in critical editions. Eight have been recorded by Conductor Antal Dorati for Philips records...
...Cambridge is celebrating its 250th birthday. Schoolchildren gather early in Harvard's Sanders Theater, where two Harvard professors--Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--entertain their young audience. In the afternoon, the adults crowd into Sanders: Harvard's President Charles Eliot begins the program by calling Cambridge "a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking peoples for generations to come." Cambridge mayor James W. Hall returns the compliment: "It is especially fitting we meet here today, having for our host an institution which, since...
...250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge,prepared by order of the City Council. This book records only one day in te city's history but still managers to paint vividly an entire era. It's worth reading, if only for the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reciting poetry to schoolchildren...
That cold morning 100 years ago marked the commemoration of the city's 250th anniversary--and the early risers who made a chronicle of its beginning stayed on the job all day, leaving a picture of a celebration just as enthusiastic as this weekend...
Many national dignitaries attended the celebration; dozens more sent regrets and wished the city a happy 250th. Joining the mayors of New York, San Francisco and a dozen other cities, not to mention literary figures like Walt Whittier in expressing sorrow at not being able to attend, was the poet James Russell Lowell. "Where'er I roam, whatever climes I see, My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee," Lowell worte...