Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
...Aaron J. Alter '79, Harvard first marshal, said the three orators were chosen from among 40 competitors to give the five-minute speeches. "We listened to everybody--presentation was just as important as content," Alter said...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
Starchy and suspicious, the Americans and their Soviet counterparts gathered next day at a long, polished table, read pompous statements to one another and still wondered what the hell was going to happen. David Aaron, disarmament planner-now a White House presence-reached across the table to light the cigarette of a Russian and dozens of bored cameramen came alive. Snap, click, whirr. Around the world a thin ray of hope shone from the morning's front pages immortalizing the symbolic U.S.-Soviet cooperation. By evening, with a little vodka under their collective belts, there was reason to believe...
...light of the recent demonstrations, we wanted people to know what Third World students are upset about. We wanted an opportunity to make concrete connections between racism at home and abroad," Aaron A. Estis, one of the editors of the report, said yesterday...