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...which won Denis global acclaim and various awards at a number of prestigious film festivals, is the poetic recollection of a former Foreign Legion officer in Djibouti. Based on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” and set to Benjamin Britten??s opera of the same title, “Beau Travail” is no traditional war film. Scenes of the legionnaires, from training to doing laundry, are punctuated with dance sequences in a local nightclub. These competing rhythms form the pulse of the film, presenting Denis’ complex aesthetic.After...
After the introduction, Koh and piano accompanist Hsin-Bei Lee, a professional pianist and MIT affiliate, performed three pieces: Benjamin Britten??s “Cello Sonata,” Frederic Chopin’s “Cello Sonata,” and Astor Piazzolla’s “Le Grande Tango...
Mozart’s Prelude to Don Giovanni, Britten??s Soirées Musicales, Stephenson’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Haydn’s Finale from Symphony No. 89 in F Major and PDQ Bach’s Eine Kleine Nichtmusik are just some of the offerings in this fully filled program. Isaiah Jackson conducts. There will also be a free pre-show half-hour of chamber music at 2 p.m. and a post-concert classical music singles club wine & cheese reception, for a minimal fee and with limited...
BRATTLE STREET CHAMBER PLAYERS SPRING CONCERT. Harvard’s premiere chamber music group will be performing this Saturday in Paine Hall. Pieces include Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 9 and Britten??s Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge. The players will also be perfoming Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 5, featuring Sonya Chung ’03 and Brian M. Seeve ’03 and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies. All proceeds from the show will go to the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program. Saturday, April...