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...entertainment first for Boston and the Fair is appearance of members of the Performing Arts Foundation of New York City. This talented group of young professional artists will present a series of one hour performances of international song and dance. Another highlight will be performances by La Meri's Ethnic Dance Group of Cape Cod. An international folk orchestra on Friday, a Bavarian orchestra on Saturday, and a Hofbrau band and Steel Band on Sunday will provide music for dancing in a specially designed garden featuring international wines...
Wednesday's forum went behind the headlines about skyrocketing food prices and wild trading in the pits of the grain exchange to highlight the one fact that the banker-capitalists cannot escape: depression conditions force them to keep up their payments on ever-increasing debts. To escape bankruptcy proceedings and the loss of their property titles, they must cut costs at all costs, and the one cost that is within their direct control is the cost of labor...
...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...
...conference this weekend at the Harkness Commons of the Harvard Graduate Center will highlight a series of meetings and conferences scheduled for October 18-21 sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research...
...Kranepool, one of the original Mets, stroked an opposite-field two-run single and veteran Willie Mays got a one-run Baltimore chopper scratch hit to highlight the Met offense...