Word: hectored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire repertoire has been built around Hector Berliox's "Grande Funeral Symphony and Triumphal," a difficult work, in the past avoided by American concert bands. The Harvard Band will attempt one of the first performances of a new arrangement by Richard Franko Goldman...
...Hector Berlioz was 35 at the time of the gift he thus described in his memoirs; Nicolò Paganini was 56, a cancer-ridden invalid no longer bewitching the public with his Guarnerius. But to Paganini, "Beethoven had at last a successor" in Berlioz, and the gift was an invitation to "write more divine compositions." Berlioz obliged with one of his most stunning works-the long "Dramatic Symphony," Romeo and Juliet. Last week the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Chorus under Guest Conductor Alfred Wallenstein gave the symphony one of its rare complete performances...
Tall Fireman Paul and Busy Policeman Joe (Victor). In the mythology of the city child, the policeman and firefighter are noble Hector and great Achilles. It is a brave myth, and this record, enriched by the street noises of everyday reality, does nothing to tarnish...
...true that these things must be seen to be believed, there should be quite a few believers among the students and Faculty members who met these remarkable boys and girls during their stay here. Those who were with them heard Hector Motroni, an American for four years, tell them, "At first I knew just about New York and Cuba, but now I want to know everything." They heard Robert Kay say, "When I see fellows just running around the streets, I say to myself, they're going to be sorry in twenty years. I'm going to make a good...
...Hector Motronl, the class valedictorian who learned how to play the piano while working as a bus-boy in a night club, gave the Harvard educators a picture of how much the project meant when he said, "I would be working now if not for the project. I needed to work, but the project was there, fortunately, I saw a big door opened and everything I wanted inside...