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...Bach Society Orchestra is, in my view, about the most reliably good music group on campus. Its programming is excellent and its performing solid. Bach Soc does not disappoint this year, either. Roy Kogan, a fine soloist who excelled last season, plays Schumann's Piano Concerto in October, Jennie Shames appears in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and the rest of the year includes Britten, Mahler, Chausson and some workhorse Beethoven. Bach doesn't figure in much, but that's the paradox of this orchestra -- it's supposed to play the Brandenburgs, but instead bombards you with great nineteenth and twentieth...
...James Roy Accardi...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie...
...decade of undisciplined expansion, growing pains have begun to set in. On the eve of the U.S. Open, 15 former tennis greats-among them Fred Perry, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Roy Emerson and Alice Marble-put their names to a two-page warning in a major tennis magazine, cautioning young players against the excesses of recent years. "The huge financial rewards you've received . . . were undreamed of when we were in our primes," the elders wrote. "How have you repaid it? By debasing tennis-its standards, its traditions, its reputation-and jeopardizing its future . . . Tennis must clean...