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...Harvard-Radcliffe Ensemble Society, a chamber music ensemble that performed regularly at Sanders Theatre and featured varieties of chamber music from all musical periods. Choler has recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums. His debut LP, “Cohler on Clarinet” was awarded five stars by BBC Music Magazine and his follow-up “More Cohler on Clarinet” was considered one of “the best CDs of the year” by that same publication. This past summer, Cohler spent time in Taipei at the Second International Clarinet Festival of Taiwan...
...incredible lively quick wit. She’s very bright and she has a grand independence of spirit. THC: What pressures, either personally or externally, did you face in adapting a greatly beloved novel, especially after there’s been a great adaptation by the BBC? JW: I was quite lucky in that I hadn’t seen the BBC version and I was coming to it quite fresh. It wasn’t a book I had lived with for a long time. I felt a huge responsibility to a young girl [Jane Austen...
Directed by Joe WrightFocus Features4 1/2 starsIt seems impossible that Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” could be adapted successfully after Laurence Olivier’s 1940 film version, a fantastic 1995 BBC TV mini-series starring (swoon) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and the recent Bollywood comedy “Bride & Prejudice” had mined so much from the material. While director Joe Wright’s version, “Pride & Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than...
...Firewall” are those discussing specific high-tension questions of Chinese politics: sites detailing the lot of the controversial Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, sites about the Tiananmen Square protests, and some others about Taiwanese independence. Also blocked, however, are sources of general international news—the BBC web site, for example, can only be intermittently reached from within Chinese borders.Of course, firewalls aren’t perfect, but the Chinese government has mechanisms in place for catching would-be circumventors as well: they log even traffic they don’t block, and have been installing surveillance...
...trio of bands hits Cambridge with a mix of subpop and alternative rock. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $12 general admission. (ABW)Sunday, Nov. 6Wyclef Jean and The Perceptionists. Ha ha. Just kidding. (BBC)Hadyn: Mass in Time of War. Masterworks Chorale performs one of Hadyn’s powerful anthems led by guest conductor David Hodgkins. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, $39/28/18 with $3 discount for WGBH members, WCRB Classical Advantage, and groups...