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...having a blast, I might say," said Josh Bloom...
...After the first snowfall of the year, a group of sophomores in Holder Court-yard get naked and play in the snow, wearing shoes, bats, and gloves," says Lawton W. Bloom, a senior at Princeton...
Demidova followed Bloom with readings in the original Russian. Her deep, emotion-filled voice seemed to epitomize what a Russian reading (of love poetry, especially) would be like. Her low voice held the Russian words still, captivating even an audience ignorant of the actual words. Her renditions were more violent and tempestuous, more bitter than Bloom's and concentrated more on the deeprooted tragedy of the poems. She was at her best when she performed a dramatic monologue from Phadra by Tsvetaeva, sustaining an intensity indicative of her formidable acting talents...
...various times in the program, Steiger took Demidova's place to give a musical response to Bloom's readings. The musical settings by three Russian composers showed that straight reading is not the only way to interpret these works. They also made for an interesting break. Steiger performed well, expressing a clarity in song that paralleled Bloom's delivery...
...final poem, the lengthy "Requiem" touched on the title of the evening's performance. Bloom told the audience that this moving poem was preserved in the memory of women for 25 years before being written down. "Requiem" spoke of the silence of the hundreds of women waiting in line behind closed gates to see their sons. That it was read last Wednesday was clear evidence that the voices of silenced women were finally ringing...