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CLASSHICAL PERCUSSION (Cambridge). Harold Farberman is one of a group of contemporary composers who, in trying to bridge the gap between classical music and jazz, have jumped with something of a splash into what is called "the third stream." A former whiz-bang drummer with the Boston Symphony, Farberman concentrates on percussion in his compositions, uses other instruments sparingly. In Evolution, a French horn appears briefly as well as a voice (Phyllis Curtin's). Progressions' percussion is punctuated by a flute. Impressions is said to be about painters, including Jackson Pollock, who would probably never recognize himself...
...addition, the new plan would eliminate what members of the Doty Committee considered a basic structural flaw in the present Gen Ed program: the diverse backgrounds of the students taking lower-level Gen Ed courses. As outstanding schools offer their students more and more college-level preparation, the gap between their graduates and those of less advanced schools grows. Sophomores, too, may come into lower-level Gen Ed courses with usually good preparation in their freshman courses. To confine well-prepared students to lower-level Gen Ed courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards...
Honest & Real. Folk rock owes its origins to Bob Dylan, 24, folk music's most celebrated contemporary composer. Much to the despair of the folk purists, Dylan first bridged the gap between folk and rock six months ago by adding a thumping big beat to the elliptical verses of his Subterranean Homesick Blues. He followed with his biggest folk-rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone, and the big-beat groups were quick to latch on to his songs, most notably It Ain't Me, Babe by the Turtles and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds. Booed during...
...population, 50% of the country's 41 million people, there was a promise of a new deal: 90% of this year's $1.2 billion in government public investment would be poured into provinces outside Mexico City. The purpose of the rural new deal is to bridge the gap between the two Mexicos-the cities, where average annual income is $630, and farms, where earnings still hardly exceed...
...third day up, the astronauts did the next best thing: they played a game of electronic tag. In an imaginary chase across the heavens, Cooper, in four precise maneuvers, closed the gap between the orbit of Gemini 5 and the simulated orbit of a phantom Agena rocket plotted by a computer...