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Even though Harvard hosts its share of interschool musical gatherings, no one could have mistaken Saturday's concert for a standard Harvard a capella...
Between midterms and a capella jams, comping the Advocate and working at PBH, Harvard students have little time to be tourists. For many, knowledge about Boston revolves around where to change to the blue line en route to the airport, and few have struck out to explore the city, much less to make it their own. Whether you're a rower, a hard-core thesis writer or just someone who's staying around, take this Spring Break to acquaint yourself with the city across the Charles. To lend some direction to your wanderings, FM recommends starting at the beginning, with...
...shame to realize that relatively few student bands exist on campus compared to the yawn-inspiring plethora of a capella groups and orchestras. For every 500 chartreuse posters proclaiming another bee-bop doo-wop smile-and-tear fest, there may be at most one piece of paper trumpeting the latest experimentalist musical incarnation or student rock group. In general, Harvard students are content performing and interpreting compositions from oldies pop icons and classical composers, and fellow students are happy to shell out financial support to perpetuate this comfortable culture. But the number of students interested in creating music for collegiate...
...that there was some resentment directed at her show during common casting for precisely this reason: several other musicals were competing for the same pool of people. But Guys and Dolls, more than most other shows at Harvard, has attracted people from outside the regular theater community, from a capella to the Pudding to dance companies, and the result is a constant flow of energy and talent on the stage. The show makes a good argument for erasing some of the barriers between student arts groups at Harvard, if for no other reason than to increase the pleasure of their...
Often the groups of people that students choose to associate with derive from artificial and arbitrary categories. These categories are frequently linked to the extracurricular activities that we pursue--for example, students will characterize themselves as jocks, IOP/U.C. politicos, Crimson editors, Diversity and Distinction literati, musicians, a capella junkies or PBHA do-gooder types...