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...piece from the mid-nineteenth century or Mozart. What’s going on? Why do we enjoy it so much? What’s there?” Aside from the academic study of music, Kapusta has had many rewarding extracurricular highlights. He refers to conducting the Harvard Ballet company as “an artistic high” in its collaboration between student dancers and musicians. “It was extremely gratifying to see how two very fine artistic groups, artistic communities even, came together to present something jointly,” he says. Kapusta...
...skillful balancing of schoolwork with artistic pursuits, all the while maintaining infectious optimism and an upbeat, casual attitude. “She has an incredible, positive, practical, energetic way of being,” remarks James C. Fuller ’10, former co-director of the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) and one of Chin’s dance partners. “I don’t actually know how she does what she does, but it certainly does not seem like she is gritting her teeth.” Chin has been dancing since she was three...
Darden Restaurants Inc., a firm based in Orlando, Fla., that runs nearly 1,800 Olive Gardens, Red Lobsters and other outlets, continues to dish out $100,000 in annual cash support to the local ballet, a 35-year-old outfit whose budget is under pressure. "Darden has been gold to us, absolute gold," gushes Sibille Pritchard, the Orlando Ballet's loquacious president, "when the climate for the arts is tough, very tough." Notes Darden spokesman Bob McAdam: "You can't give up on the arts. They're essential to the general welfare of the community...
...Weber, a former ballet dancer and a professional tapper since 1986, remarked in an interview that Oppenheimer was a “great student...
...Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” which was just as tame as the main performance itself, Sung led the orchestra in the 1945 version of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet written on commission by dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. While the BSO attacked Copland’s syncopated rhythms with crisp precision and settled upon key symphonic harmonies in layers of perfect intonation, the distinctively optimistic, Americana aura of Copland’s work made only a transient appearance. Sung?...