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...Julian Bream is only 25 years old. Julian Bream is also the world's foremost lutanist. He made his achievement clear on Thursday evening before an overflowing and unusually demonstrative Sanders Theater audience. Known in this country hitherto only on recordings, Bream is making his first U.S. visit; and the Music Department is to be commended for getting him to Cambridge before his New York debut on the 30th of this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plucker With Pluck | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...show here was a one-composer show, too. Bream served up on his delectable seven-course lute (made by London's renowned Thomas Goff) an appetizing baker's dozen of dance pieces and fantasias by England's greatest lute-composer and song-writer, John Dowland (properly pronounced Doh-land, contrary to almost universal practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plucker With Pluck | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plucker With Pluck | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...Julian Bream will give a concert of lute music by John Dowland, Elizabethan composer, on Oct. 9th at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The concert, sponsored by the Department of Music, is free, with no tickets required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUTIST TO PLAY | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish, it is perhaps the most relaxing form of fishing in the world; Murchison likes it because it gives him time to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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