The occasion begins at 6 30 with with a half-hour interview with Mr. Rorem.
Jukka Tiensuu's "Nous" (2010), commissioned by the society for the occasion, begins as a post-Minimalist essay in insistently repeated notes and gradually expands, ending up with a series of short but frenetic solos for each instrument (piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello).
My notes for the occasion begin: "Kitaj!
The scandal of "Heldenplatz," the verse drama that was Bernhard's contribution to the occasion, began well before opening night.
Only when they were shown how to carry the flag, which turned out to be trickier than she'd imagined, and made her thumb go numb, did the magnitude of the occasion begin to sink in.
Genesis, the very first poem, takes the creation myth as its own creative occasion, beginning: "Against the burly air I strode, / crying the miracles of God" and ending: By blood we live, the hot, the cold, To ravage and redeem the world, There is no bloodless myth will hold.
Here, however, I shall take the liberty to defy that convention and to tell you that the lunch on this occasion began with soles, sunk in a deep dish, over which the college cook had spread a counterpane of the whitest cream, save that it was branded here and there with brown spots like the spots on the flanks of a doe.
Lumps in throats became the order of the afternoon as the enormity of the occasion began to seep in.
The show: The "Glee" gang chose songs for the occasion, beginning with Darren Criss on the guitar for "Somewhere That's Green".
I don't hate them, actually, it's more that I find them so exhausting that I can, on occasion, begin to feel physically violent.
The third test occasion began with a MST of each leg followed by twenty minutes of seated rest, during which the physiotherapist described the IKEPT test.
