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Although there is a general impression that the Harvard Music Department feels music should be seen and not heard there are some excellent concert artists on the music faculty. One of these is assistant professor Laurence D. Berman. As one enthusiastic undergraduate said. "He is a fantastic, incredible pianist." Students who took the second half of Music 1 last spring were privileged to hear Berman illustrating his musical ideas at the keyboard. Those in Music 154 remember his playing the Liszt "Vallee d'Obermann" or improvising Chopin etudes. They remember his legendary ability sight-read scores. But those outside...
...Berman started to play the piano under Lucille Morrisson Ravyen when he was seven: by the time he was ten or twelve he was working on Beethoven sonatas, playing in state contests, and giving solo recitals. In four years at Harvard, he took not one music course; he majored first in chemistry and then in history and science. He did accompany the Harvard Glee Club and had lessons with Miklos Schwalb at the New England Conservatory and gave several solo recitals. Junior year was a turning point in his career. He decided that he did not want...
...went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger. He was studying composition full-time and had given up the idea of a concert career, yet he somehow found time to tour Holland, Belgium, and France as an accompanist to the singer Robert Gartside. In 1952 Berman returned to Harvard as a graduate student in Music. When Nadia Boulanger visited the United States. Berman impressarioed the concert at the Fogg Art Museum. Shortly afterward he returned to France temporarily resumed accompanying. He came back to Harvard in 1963 and began work on his doctoral thesis...
...Ellen Berman's sensitive Ethel Merman-like portrayal of the Blessed Mother is one of the strengths of the show. She takes snapshots at the Last Supper, genuflects compulsively after the Resurrection, and belts out "The Dove that Done Me Wrong" -she says of her unborn Child, "Well, it'll either be some sort of strange bird, or the Savior of the World" -with an eerie operatic raunchiness. Kay Tolbert's Mary Magdalene is a good-natured whore; her number, "You Can't Get a Man with a Prayer" ("God is just an abstraction/I need a little action "), places...
Many alleged incidents of violence have marred this dispute. Jerry T. Berman, an investigator for the Center for Community Change, said in a report, "Organizers and striking workers have been subjected to wide-spread violence. Beatings have been commonplace . . . and many strikers have been shot at and wounded. Law enforcement officials appear to be looking the other...