Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Charging undergraduate organizations for the rehearsal use of College buildings may be justified, but permitting exemptions for some and not for others don't quite make sense. The Glee Club, the Band, and the Orchestra use Sever and Sanders Theatre without charge, while everyone else must pay for the evening lighting, heating, and janitor service...
This "discrimination" started back when President Lowell exempted the Glee Club from the fees in order to help their shaky financial position. The Band picked up the privilege before the war and later so did the orchestra. Unfortunately, those who must now pay for evening rehearsal time are the least able to. The two theatre groups which have produced this fall have been in the hole upwards of a thousands dollars...
...cabin crude and just as American. Symphony No. 3, finished in 1904 and revised in 1911, gathered dust in Ives's Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting) has given the symphony a good performance in a new recording by WCFM Recording Corp. (2 sides...
...grales, Density 21.5, lonization, etc. (Rene Le Roy, flute; New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra, Frederic Waldman conducting; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Percussionist Edgard Varèse is a Buck Rogers of music whose drummings, thumpings, clangings and shrillings make the compositions of such modernists as Stravinsky seem old-fashioned arid conventional. Here is a full sampling for the hardy. Recording: good...
...Mortimer had one quality Fuseli lacked: crass humor. Along with a doleful Caliban and a tumultuous Hercules Slaying the Hydra, he drew such fantasies as an orchestra of flatulent beasts, which must have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...