Alumni Gazette
Quotable
“It was a bit like Christmas in February, I suppose.”
—Dominick Argento ’58E (PhD) in the
Minneapolis Star Tribune on winning his first Grammy Award last February.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, who is a professor at the University
of Minnesota, won the recording industry’s top award for Best Classical
Contemporary Composition for Casa Guidi from his 2003 album of the
same name. Based on a series of letters written by poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
to her husband, Robert Browning, the composition was recorded by the Minnesota
Orchestra under director Eiji Oue. Classical singer Frederica von Stade sang
the piece at its debut and in its recorded version.
“You ask some of these people how they got to be 102, they say it’s
because they drank three martinis a day. What do they have that protected them?”
—Thomas Perls ’86M (MD), in a story
in The New York Times Magazine, on the growing population of Americans
living past the age of 100. Perls, who is director of the New England Centenarian
Study at the Boston University School of Medicine, argues there is a genetic
component at work.
“Don’t give up. You’ve got to keep going no matter how bad
it gets. Don’t ever give up.”
—Edith Keyes Harris ’20, in the Wellesley,
Massachusetts, Townsman, after being presented with an award recognizing
her as Wellesley’s oldest resident at age 104.
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