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...grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
...Braden provided a friendly mini-lecture on the structure of jazz improvisation, but his words may have been lost given the number and variety of the performances. In any case, the high spirits and the impressive talent of the night, especially Fiona Anderson and Brian Williams, quieted the complaints of the purists...
...very impressive was the presence of alumni performers who came back to be part of a tradition started four years ago. Rex Dean '84, the founder of Jazz For Life, returned to sing, as did Paul Brusiloff '86 and the Cambridge-based, alumni-dominated vocal group Centerpiece. Saxophonist Don Braden '85-'88 interrupted his studies to tour with Wynton Marsalis and may never return to Harvard for a degree. He did, however, return to support Jazz For Life, playing both as featured soloist and as sideman...
Acting President Henry Rosovsky will host the gala event which will feature many Harvard a capella groups, and a variety of other graduate and undergraduate performers, including Don Braden '85-'88 who plays in Wynton Marsalis' band and Paul D. Brusiloff '86 and his band High Spirit...
About 700 Harvard people will participate inthe celebration, three-quarters of whom will beHarvard students. The concert will feature theHarvard band, the Kuumba singers and the HastyPudding Theatricals Club. Jazz singer FionaAnderson '88 will perform with Don Braden's Jazzband, a student group, and with the Boston Pops.Concluding the gala event, fireworks will bedropped from a helicopter above the stadium...