Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting a New York...
Bach's Magnificat in D, for Tovey, his "most comprehensively representative work," has proved itself an arduous undertaking for almost every choral group. Bach himself conceived the Song of the Virgin as an intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding as they are various and voice parts that combine a considerable amount of colortura with an unusually high tessitura. Under Elliot Forbe's direction, most of the intricacies were blurred, and the joy appeared in frequent flashes...
...soloist group, for the most part, showed itself to be considerably more competent. The melodic lines were supple, the tone solid, and the phrasing refreshingly simple. But these good people were often forced to compete with the instrumentalists who were accompanying them. I was particularly impressed by Lila Woodruff's clear and completely unaffected reading of the soprano aria, Quia respexit, which she accomplished by completely ignoring a jarring accompaniment by a very poorly tuned oboe d'amore...
...chorus, which had had little success in its earlier ventures, demonstrated in the terzett Suscepit Israel that it is still the master of choral singing. The remaining choruses were capably handled, but their effectiveness only served to emphasize the failings of the first part. Mr. Forbes and his group have given us much better music before...
These were average students and they of course had fewer contacts with the faculty than men with higher group rankings. They were impressed by various teacher who characteristic ways, though always it was the teacher who communicated enthusiasm whom they remembered well. Some of the graduates attacked scholars and researchers "I am really upset about ... philosophy ... becoming academic." Others remembered the excitement of heating researcher teach: "the people who are better organized and have a firm grasp of the material are the people who are really doing some exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive...