Word: 500th
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Harvard's first win was a 10-1 victory overMIT, way back in January 11, 1990. The 500th winwas at Northeastern's expense on January...
Zamir Chorale of Boston--commemorates the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. Joshua Jacobson, conductor. Is the expulsion of Jews from Spain really something to commemorate? Millenium Ensemble-Theodore Antoniou, music director. Boston University. Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6,8 p.m. Free...
...500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas, Berkeley will put a new twist in its official calendar. While the rest of the country is observing Columbus Day next Oct. 12, Berkeley will inaugurate "Indigenous Peoples Day," becoming the first U.S. city to change the name and focus of the holiday. Traditionally, says Berkeley Mayor Lonni Hancock, Columbus Day celebrations have been "Eurocentric and ignored the brutal realities of the colonization of indigenous peoples." The new holiday, vows Hancock, will provide "an accurate history" of the explorer's discoveries and show how they led to the conquest and destruction...
...500th anniversary may also force a new awareness in school curriculums of the immense role played by Spaniards in early colonial America. Up to now they have been all but shunted out of view behind the screen of Anglo founder- images (the Pilgrim Fathers, Raleigh in Virginia). This can do good, not because it may pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese...
...grandiose new lighthouse already looks like an anomaly, while the old poverty huddling at its edges seems all too contemporary. Overarching light and enforced darkness, cheek by jowl. The Manichaean contrast is altogether fitting for this, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' world-shattering voyage, which is itself increasingly seen in opposing terms of black and white. The Columbus quincentennial officially kicks off this Columbus Day, Oct. 12 -- but it has even now generated enough contrast and controversy to outlast its appointed year and, quite possibly, this decade...