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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...
...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...
...says “though I feel a bit of a fraud doing anything that’s less than a hundred thousand words long.” He’d also consider writing a historical novel, a step that would be all the more timely after the BBC completes its film version of “The Line of Beauty” by director Andrew Davies, best known for period pieces like “Middlemarch” and “Pride and Prejudice.”Regardless of genre or period, Hollinghurst’s style...
...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...
...October 1945, C.S. Lewis wrote aslightly grumpy reply to someone asking him to do a book on Christianity, in plain language, specifically for workers. Since giving a series of wartime BBC lectures on the faith's basics, Lewis had become a kind of Christian Answer Man, and frankly, he had other ambitions and projects. "I am nearly 47," he complained. "Where are my successors...