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...Royal Garden Blues,” and “Eyes of Blue.” This spring, senior bandleaders Max S. Mishkin ’09 and Greg D. Dyer ’09 realized the two-year-long dream of putting together a small band by recruiting their fellow students in The Harvard University Band to join what is now unofficially called The Charles Riverboat Band. Mishkin credits the ensemble’s adviser Thomas G. Everett, who also directs The Harvard University Band, with “pushing us to listen across the group and improvise instead...
...mariachi bands and their tunes of past glories were deafeningly silent; the dances of women in handmade red dresses nowhere to be found; the reenactments by men dressed as tunic-clad soldiers notably absent. For the first time in 147 years since a small band of Mexican forces defeated the French imperial army, Mexico cancelled popular fiestas of Cinco de Mayo to avoid revelers spreading the deadly swine...
Camera Obscura is an indie pop band. Camerata Obscura is what an indie pop band might have been like back in the Renaissance. “A lot of small playing groups call themselves camerata,” explains Anna H. de Bakker ’10, who sings the alto part in the vocal ensemble, “and we were making a pun.” The program that Camerata Obscura will be presenting on Saturday May 2 at 2:30 at Adolphus Busch Hall, titled “Music of Lament,” showcases music?...
...artist who is otherwise a paragon of interdisciplinary spirit and multifaceted interest. Chou is interested in fashion; she did a fashion internship one summer in L.A, a good deal of her wardrobe is homemade, and she designs costumes for HRDC. She takes photographs, plays keyboard in a band, is interested in architecture, and is a commercial graphic designer. Seen the Fogg Art Museum’s brochure? It’s hers. She likes both creating and watching animations as well. Her bow, in fact, was inspired by a character in a Miyazaki animated film named Kiki, a 13-year...
...there is one term in popular music that exemplifies misnomer, it is “supergroup.” Coined to describe Cream, a band whose members did their best work together, its meaning has changed radically over the years, such that any assortment of has-beens are dubbed a “supergroup” when they are anything but. To mention two supergroups of this decade, Audioslave euthanized the fury and passion of Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine into dull, MOR post-grunge, while Velvet Revolver strengthened the case for a mandatory retirement age for heavy metal...