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...unfortunate, I suppose, that a large majority of Harvard-students would rather attend the Harvard-Cornell game than a piccolo concerto, but I can't think of a reasonable solution to this problem. An administrative decision to weaken the Harvard hockey team in order to increase attendance at "weightier" events strikes me as a tad unresponsive to student interests. Harvard does have an obligation to recruit piccolo players and to provide them with adequate facilities and instruction. I assume that it does...
WHILE BERKELEY STUDENTS ponder the Boring Party, those at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, are considering weightier issues in their April student elections. Like a similar movement at Brown University, a group of Santa Cruz students is sponsoring a measure asking the school administration in stock suicide pills for use in the event of a nuclear attack. The measure, sponsored by the Student Alliance for Fallout Emergency, or SAFE, also asks for on campus mass grave sites so irradiated bodies can be quickly disposed. Although Santa Cruz Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer opposes the measure with the claim that "such actions...
...embrace, they first drive mad. Agnes is a strange young woman, singing in an Angelus-clear soprano and obey voices no one can hear. It remains for Martha and Miriam to translate these sounds into the lumbering prose of reason. Pielmeier orchestrates the examination deftly and leavens the weightier speculations with airy talk-show humor. But as Agnes soars into catharsis and Martha tries desparately to anchor her in the explicable, Pielmeier allows himself to take leave of dramatic sense. He offers too many motivations to save the mystery, and too few to sastisfy the scrupulous plot watcher. The result...
...struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, for example, and Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In doing so, however, Pavarotti has sacrificed much of his freshness and lyric bloom...
...played Svengali to her Trilby. It was with Karajan at La Scala that she came to international attention, singing Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli's 1963 production of La Bohème, and it has been with Karajan at his Salzburg Festival that she premiered some of her weightier roles, like Aida in 1979. "He said to me, 'Mirella, I want you to sing Aida. You can do the line I want. I don't like Aida screaming.' " After the first rehearsal, the orchestra broke into applause, and Karajan embraced her. He told her, "Mirella...