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...Harvard-Radcliffe Kuumba Brothers opened the show with a rendition of the South African national anthem in Zulu, "Nkosi Sikeleli Africa," meaning "God Bless Africa...
Rising to sing Harvard's anthem, "Fair Harvard," the audience read from their programs which included a revised version of the anthem. A reference to Harvard's "sons" had been replaced by the gender neutral...
Still enjoying regular airplay, Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" was the summer anthem in my suburban circle of friends. It embodied our insouciant attitudes toward life as we spent the summer months together. The song's awesome combination of calculated brilliance, rebellious lyrical themes and the lead singer's solid, warm attack create an unforgettable tune. Emanating from all of this, the song represents the youthful belief that nothing can ever go wrong in life-a sentiment that inherently appeals to adolescent culture...
There are a few worthwhile songs on Be Here Now. The first single, D'You Know What I Mean?, is a fun, if frothy, rock anthem; The Girl in the Dirty Shirt has a cool, clomping beat and playful but passionate vocals; and Stand by Me, with its big, sweet guitar licks and hand-clapping chorus, has pop appeal. So far, though, Oasis hasn't come close to creating a body of work that will make the young, hot, upstart rock bands of the future want to borrow from it. But the band is still a fairly...
...Symphony 1997 take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's user-friendly tone, Tan says, is no accident: "If you ask young people of today to listen to a 20-minute-long symphonic movement, nobody really has the patience to listen--not even me! This is why the symphony is in 13 short movements. It's like paragraphs: each section...