AMERICA SINCE 1865
THE VICE PRESIDENCY
WILLIAM PENNED
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE
200
'On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood'
Alaska
200
'The vice president serves as the presiding officer, or president, of this U.S. government body'
the Senate
200
'It's believed he wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at a wedding'
William Shakespeare
200
'The orchestra's great conductor Leopold Stokowski discarded this to lead the music with his hands'
the baton
200
'We didn't download music, we listened to the radio to hear this "Mr. Tambourine Man", Jakob's father'
Bob Dylan
400
'On January 20, 1997 he said, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..."'
Bill Clinton
400
'Cardiological term often used for the distance the vice president is "away" from the most powerful office in the land'
heartbeat
400
'In the late 1920s he penned what many consider his greatest novel, "The Sound and the Fury"'
William Faulkner
400
'The orchestra toured so much that conductor Eugene Ormandy quipped this is a nice town & they should play there'
Philadelphia (their home base)
400
'Today you have your raps & your raves; in the '60s, this Asian country had a real cultural revolution'
China
600
'(Hi, I'm Christine King Farris) In Oslo, Norway, in 1964, my brother became the youngest recipient of this'
Nobel Peace Prize
600
'He told Abigail that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office" contrived or conceived'
John Adams
600
'In "Lord of the Flies" he explored the dark side of human nature'
William Golding
600
'The orchestra has 2 harpists, 4 bassoonists & 32 of these'
violinists
600
'Not any artist could sell for millions like today; he had to be a master like this "Night Watch" Dutchman'
Rembrandt
800
'On May 21, 1927 this American landed in Paris & was welcomed by a crowd of about 100,000'
Charles Lindbergh
800
'The official music for the vice president, "Hail Columbia" is the veep's equivalent of this march'
"Hail to the Chief"
800
'"Lyrical Ballads", a poetry collection by Coleridge & this man, includes his famous "Tintern Abbey"'
William Wordsworth
800
'The orchestra's first concert at the Academy of Music, its home 1900-2001, featured this man's 1805 Fifth Symphony'
Ludwig van Beethoven
800
'They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic'
"Oliver Twist"
1000
'On June 17, 1972 5 were arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ in this Washington, D.C. apartment complex'
the Watergate building
1000
'The vice president attends meetings of the president's cabinet & is a member of this, the NSC'
National Security Council
1000
'In his poem about a "tyger", he asked, "Did he who made the lamb make thee?"'
William Blake
1000
'The orchestra is heard in the 1937 movie "100 Men and a Girl" & this 1940 Disney film'
Fantasia
1000
'We didn't have the Springer show, but we watched this leader seen here have a "kitchen debate" with Nixon'
Nikita Khrushchev
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