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...lesson from any professor at New England Conservatory, where many Harvard students take lessons, can cost upwards of $100, according to Jonathan L. Yates '97, pianist and conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra...
...given to a non-American always a job lost; in fact, sometimes the opposite is true. One of the signatories to the Hyde letter is Zvi Or-Bach, an Israeli engineer who six years ago founded Chip Express, a manufacturer of custom-made microchips that has 64 employees--only 30 are foreign--in Santa Clara, California, and 30 more in Israel. Under the Simpson bill, Or-Bach argues, he would have been unable to hire enough skilled workers to start up his thriving firm. In fact, there would have been no one to dream up the company, since Or-Bach...
Something is wrong when a rock band composed of three adolescent boys draws crowds whose enthusiasm dwarfs that of those who routinely attend symphony concerts in the nation's sixth-largest city. Something is wrong with a society which places more value on a band titled "Immature," than on Bach partitas or Mendelssohn songs without words. Something is deeply wrong, and if our generation does not act soon to draw listeners to the nation's echoing, empty concert halls, we will lose irreplaceable works of beauty...
Even in Boston, a town with culture and history oozing from its cobblestone streets, the crowds are rarely enough to make the ornate Symphony Hall feel full. At a concert last mouth featuring the works of Bach and Vivaldi, the first and second balconies were woefully deserted. While the Boston Symphony will likely never declare bankruptcy, even here we must keep an eye out for shrinking crowds...
...becomes frustrated, somebody tells him off, he gets the message and feels better. This is the method of nearly every scene in Patrick Sheane Duncan's script--as reductive and repetitive as a bad teacher's syllabus. And kids will learn things from Mr. Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid the problems they pretend to confront. This...