Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonard Yehrman '71. On March 24, HRO will read a new piece by Faye Silberman, first year graduate in the music department. Another way that the orchestra serves the musical community is by giving students a chance to solo with an orchestra. Every year the orchestra holds a concerto contest. The winner plays on the final spring concert. In 1968 Tonu Kalam '69 played Beethoven's first piano concerto in the May concert. This fall Ron Takvorian performed the second Prokofiev piano concerto...
There was a slight amount of dissension as well, which hurt the Crimson's consistency. When Weiland benched Steve Owen and Dan DcMichele for the second Princeton contest, it was not merely to give them a rest. Their careless backchecking had often cost Harvard goals in prior games, and this, perhaps, was Weiland's way of indicating his displeasure. The backchecking improved immediately...
...apparent, just from the manner in which Harvard's hockey team was skating during the first period Saturday night, that the Crimson's season had ended the previous evening. Consolation games usually mean little to any hockey team, and it was clear that the ECAC playoff contest with Boston University meant nothing-at least to Harvard...
Harvard's lack of enthusiasm about the contest, while understandable, was still distressing. It did nothing to silence the critics who have maintained all winter Harvard gets up only for the big games, and hardly cares about the others. That nonchalance had been the difference between a fourth-place seeding in last week's tournament, or fifth. It had been the difference between second place in the Ivy League or third. It was, finally, the difference between an outstanding and a mediocre season...
...blues. Most of the other kids weren't ready for them yet because actually I only got them at age two because I was very mature for my age. I wore them to bed. I wore them to Sunday School, and I wore them to my first pancake caring contest. Mom made me take them off when I got in the bath tub, but that wasn't very often...