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...Alan P. Symonds '69, the technical director of Harvard College Theatre Programs and a mainstay of the Harvard dramatic community for decades, died Tuesday, June 21 of a heart attack while working late at the Agassiz Theatre, where he had his office...
...literally thousands of Harvard students over decades, Alan was the heart and soul of college theatre,” Megan wrote in an e-mail. “He was extremely bright, affable and enthusiastic, and when it came to all aspects of technical theatre—from set, sound and lighting design to implementation—he was truly expert...
Blase E. Ur ’07, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Company, agreed. “You haven't seen a play on the Harvard campus in decades that happened without either Alan's direct help or the involvement of people who learned most of what they know from Alan,” he said. “Everyone involved in technical theatre very much looked up to Alan and learned an incredible amount from...
...Many of us are still struggling to believe that he won't be there in the fall,” she said. “The Agassiz Theatre was Alan's home, despite its quirks and difficulties, and he always wanted the best for it and for those groups performing...
...generated ticket sales of around $300 million from the 110 dates they played in 2005 ensuring, even after hefty production costs, a healthy cut for the promoters, management and venues. For the mega-acts, concerts are now the horse driving the CD cart. In a paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and grad student Marie Connolly called Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music, the writers found that in the U.S., "Only four of the top 35 income earners made more money from recordings than live concerts...