Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...International Voluntary Services, Luce speaks Vietnamese fluently, knows the culture and people better than virtually any correspondent or U.S. Government employee. That may be the problem. Luce feels he witnessed wholesale indifference to the fate of the Vietnamese people. When his Vietnamese workers on one agricultural program were deprived of six months' pay by a Vietnamese provincial administrator, he was told by U.S. and Vietnamese officials it was none of his affair. When an entire island was defoliated by U.S. planes, Luce asked $10,000 restitution for lost crops. A U.S. official told him: "The whole damn country...
...brings up all the problems of censorship-do we have the right to regulate what people see on television," Kagan said. "We are hoping that they [the station and the program's sponsors] will say, 'the hell with it' and put on another show in its place...
Yesterday's program would have staggered a major symphony, but the HRO and the University Choir took it on without flinching. The Haydn Paukenmesse, the Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, and the lovely little Schutz choral piece, Lobe den Herren, Meine Seele are all challenging pieces. It is amazing, not that the players handled them so well, but that they could handle them...
John Ferris conducted the other two parts of the program, and did a spectacular job. He has a unique way of preparing a choir, and it was obvious that the University choir felt at home with him. His directing was clear and precise, easily comprehensible but not simplistic. The Symphony of Psalms was beautifully done, the choir well prepared. This symphony is unusually difficult for the woodwinds, but the flutes and oboes responded very well...
Despite all that, the HRO and the University Choir have taken on a daring program and succeeded. It is refreshing that enough people are still dedicated to music to make up an orchestra, even though the Faculty seems determined to treat performing as the bastard child of the Music Department. While the Faculty Council keeps debating the issue of granting academic credit to the HRO, more and more players find that they cannot afford the time to perform with the Orchestra. If music dies at Harvard, it may be because the Faculty really didn't want it in the first...