Word: arias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Middle East. 472 Mass Ave. 354-8238. Upstairs: Scatterfield on Friday, Dec. 11. The Drovers on Saturday, Dec. 12. Downstairs: CD Release Party of Chuck with Random House of Soul and Aria on Thursday, Dec. 10. World Saxophone Quartet on Friday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. Brazilian Jazz Mater Ivo Perelman on Saturday...
...which Miller dubs "modern Western," is steeped in the same pioneering spirit. His eclectic menu ranges from neo-Tex-Mex tidbits like chipotle chile breadsticks to fresh-baked buckwheat cinnamon bread, smoked duck and buffalo jerky. "Smoking is a natural by-product of heat," Miller says, launching into an aria of poetic exaltation. "There's an intensity of wildness, of untamed flavor. It's loaded symbolically with a primordial sense of fire and man. I read a lot of meaning into food. I think it's one of the last experimental frontiers...
...conversion to the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad and his assassination at 39. The less savory aspects of his life are glossed over in favor of his iconographic significance as the avenging angel of black America. "My truth is a hammer," sings the jailed Malcolm in the extraordinary aria that ends the first act. "It will beat you down when you least expect . . . You want the truth, but you don't want to know...
Letitia J. D' Aria...
...create a bourgeois French ambience are carried through by the actors and actresses with ease. The costumes (designed by Lara Ho and Christie Peale) are appropriate for the classical French setting. The set design utilizes the space of Leverett House old Library well. The music, Bach's Goldberg Variations (Aria and 30 variations) lends itself to the decadent an opulent atmosphere well. The overall visual and the atrical effects show off some excellent talents...