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...Concert Band, honors the bicentennial of Hector Berlioz with a concert conducted by Harvard Assistant Band Director Nathaniel H. Dickey, and Northeastern Band Director Allen Feinstein. Each ensemble performs its own repertoire followed by a joint performance of Berlioz’s “Grande Symphonie funèbre et triumphale.” The concert also includes classic works for winds like Walter Piston’s “Tunbridge Fair,” Gustav Holst’s First and Second Suites for Military Band, as well as music by Percy Grainger, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Nikolai...
BRITAIN Let Off ... for Now A London court granted bail to Chechen activist Akhmed Zakayev at the start of extradition proceedings demanded by Russia. His case has become a cause célèbre: the actress Vanessa Redgrave guaranteed his €78,000 bail. Zakayev, 43, is an envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov; Moscow calls him a terrorist. He was briefly detained by British authorities upon his arrival from Denmark, where he spent more than a month in custody. Copenhagen let him go, saying there wasn't enough evidence to support Russia's accusations against...
...Staff writer Lauren R. Dorgan can bre reached at dorgan@fas.harvard.edu...
...could barely conceal its support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly, in the darker shades of India's patchwork history still lie the present and perhaps the future...