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...respect for,” Schacter says, describing the advantages of playing with well-known figures in jazz. A music concentrator, Schachter also notes that guest artists help students understand the intensity of work necessary to make a life as a musician. Schachter, who has played with clarinetist Don Byron, singer Jon Hendricks, Latin jazz pioneer Eddie Palmieri, trumpeter Brian Lynch, drummer Bobby Sanabria, and pianist Geri Allen, also notes a more ephemeral benefit. “There’s this kind of energy or magic that comes out of meeting someone who’s doing what you?...
...room. In the earlier setting, the story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara L. Wright ’09). Several extramarital affairs, one Romanticism-satirizing landscape remodeling, and the fleeting appearance of Lord Byron at the manor comprise the basic machinations of this plot. The modern setting focuses on Hannah Jarvis (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale (Chris J. Carothers ’11), bickering academics studying the events of 1809 and looking to make big discoveries while sifting through...
...Harvard community.It’s a great Harvard play because it’s such a nerdy play. Oh my god, it discusses chaos theory and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Every now and then there are poetry quotations from characters like Lord Byron. Also, there’s a character of an academic that you’d actually want to be like so you figure, it’s worthwhile to stay at Widener late. It’s a play that rewards nerdiness. It’s a play about ideas, lots...
...visual representations of history and identity are of course riddled with historical contingencies. As the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Byron Rushing notes, “We must account for the messages conveyed by the Commonwealth’s most widespread symbols,” and no doubt confronting the artifacts of the past is something all societies must do. The point of the bill—to establish a commission to discuss these semiotic issues—is a healthy expression of our willingness to articulate our orientation with the past. Hopefully, though, the commission will find that...
...Mary Shelley, famous now (and even then) as the author of Frankenstein, was casting about for a new idea for a novel. She was in emotional straits. She had already buried three children before her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, drowned in 1822. Their friend Lord Byron had just died in Greece. She felt as if everyone she knew?the age itself in which she lived?was passing away around...