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Over the years, art has demonstrated its love for the celestial, from Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” to Lord Byron??s, “She walks in beauty, like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies.” Tonight, astronomy returns the favor. To celebrate a convergence of art and astronomy, STAHR, an organization devoted to the observation and study of the cosmos, is hosting a poetry event at the Loomis-Michael Observatory...
...Grandfather, respectively, each pulling out the stops with regards to various pensioner maladies. The parallels begin to fade, however, with the end of the first scene. For one thing, the fairy Godfather Drosselmeier takes on an entirely new appeal. As danced by Yury Yanowsky, he is a campy Latin Byron??a sexy sorcerer with a dark purple cape and matching tights to boot. For another, while Balanchine’s Nutcracker is in actuality Drosselmeier’s nephew, Nissinen’s Nutcracker is the much older Cavalier to the Sugarplum Fairy, come from the Kingdom...
Jazz clarinetist Don Byron??s latest album, “A Ballad for Many,” certainly deals in disorder. The first half hour of his collaboration with the Bang on a Can All-Stars—an instrumental group whose core of material comes from avant-garde composers like Brian Eno and Steve Reich—is dissonant enough to make acid jazz sound like Muzak...
...Byron??who played with the Harvard Jazz Band in concert earlier this year—waits too long to resolve this atonal mayhem into something more accessible. Tension isn’t a counterpoint to his music; it’s the grammar he uses to compose...
...made for loving,/ And the day returns too soon,/ Yet we’ll go no more a-roving/ By the light of the moon.” If you once again replace “a-roving” with “thesis-writing,” Byron??s thoughts on completing one’s thesis are pretty clear. You may not feel ready to part from it—the night was made for loving!—but it is time to move on. We’ll finish our theses; we?...