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Lowell House’s newly molded Russian bells rang in their inaugural performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture—a piece that explicitly called for Russian bells??on Sunday. The Danilov bells??which preceded the current set—were donated to Harvard by an American industrialist Charles R. Crane in 1930. They narrowly escaped the fate of most other Russian bells that were, at the time, being destroyed by Stalin’s regime. They were returned in 2008 to their original home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, after many years...
...Another mistake, common in student government elections, was the preponderance of outrageous promises. For instance, one candidate promised to clean up the “smelly Science Center fountain,” stop the “annoying bells?? from ringing, and install swingsets in the Yard. Although many undergraduates might not object to these changes, as campaign promises they are meaningless, given the UC’s lack of say in such matters. How can the UC expect to be taken seriously if its ranks are determined by these arbitrary criteria...
Though Faust initially had to raise her voice above the Memorial Church bells??which rang in the 3 o’clock hour during the first paragraph of her speech—student response to the address was overwhelmingly positive...
Though Faust initially had to raise her voice above the Memorial Church bells??which rang in the 3 o’clock hour during the first paragraph of her speech—student response to the address was overwhelmingly positive...
...Kroeber’s unique drum licks fail to save the album from repetitiveness, and the songs soon begin to blend together. The percussive elements—consisting of everything from insistent toms over a deeper backbeat to the rat-tat of wooden sticks topped off with tingly silver bells??share a nearly equal billing with the vocals and often outshine Long’s deft guitar pickings. Long’s melodies are usually quite pleasing, but his unremarkable singing voice fails to add enough warmth to the album, resulting in chilly, jangly songs that fail...