Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Cubans, learning the fundamentals of math, physics, chemistry-and Marxist ideology. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, who visited the island, found plenty of regimentation, but no readily detectable evidence that the youths are there against their will. There may well be exceptions, but if so, they are effectively subdued by group pressure. Scott's report, after a two-day tour...
...tune or play them. But in the past few decades there has been a revolution in early music. Dozens of scholarly, dedicated ensembles have sprung up to try to reclaim Atlantis, not in the spirit of archaeology but of art, by reimagining it. In the U.S., no other group approaches the task with more style and verve than the Waverly Consort...
Jaffee and his wife Kay, 42, who is the group's specialist in recorders, call the Waverly "a mom and pop operation." She does the research, he does the arranging. "Even in modern notation," Kay explains, "a piece we select will typically be nothing but a melodic line, with no sharps or flats, no tempo or dynamic markings-just a clue." How to flesh out the melody, how to pace it and color it, when to use voices and when instruments, and even where a touch of improvisation might spark things along: these are decisions Michael makes. He plans...
...first seasons, the group could scarcely fill a hall in New York. Now their annual schedule of 59 concerts includes 17 appearances in New York, all of them sold out. Their four LPs on Vanguard and Columbia, while hardly rivaling the Boston Pops, have broken out of the confines of the specialized early-music market. In addition, they are moving into national television. They have video-taped four 20-minute recitals of music by such contemporaries of Shakespeare's as Dowland, Byrd and Weelkes, for inclusion in PBS's Shakespeare series starting this month. "The potential audience...
When Simons began unearthing scattered Aegyptopithecus fragments in the 1960s, he could only speculate about the primate's place in the evolutionary past. From the latest group of fossils, he is convinced that it was the immediate forebear of Dryopithecus, a more advanced primate that first appeared in Africa 8 million years later; that was not long before the crucial split in the evolutionary tree that produced one branch leading to the apes, another to man. Simons is so sure of Aegyptopithecus' place in the evolutionary scheme that he has taken to calling the beast "the dawn...