Word: cappella
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...Child, from Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland, rediscovered only in 1998 and on show for the first time in Italy. Filippino's Madonna with Child and Angels, owned by a Florentine bank, is widely reproduced but rarely seen. A Canadian musicologist recently transcribed and recorded the a cappella music the angels are singing from a scroll in their hands, so visitors to the exhibition can hear the masterpiece as well as see it. As it happens, Filippino's perfectly rendered score was one of the most popular songs of the 15th century. Although the quintessential Botticelli works, Birth...
...It’s amazing to see how far diversity has come at Harvard,” she said. “I remember when we were putting this together 20 years ago, we brought in the Opportunes and some of the other a cappella groups. That was the version of culture, that was the way there was entertainment for the student body...
...distributes a Christian Science Monitor expose that depicts him as a liberal ideologue in and outside the classroom. He was a featured speaker at Harvard’s large anti-war walkout last year, and at every opportunity he gets (from serving as the emcee of an a cappella concert to chatting with students he meets in the Yard), he lets loose his wry sense of humor against the usual targets: George Bush, John Ashcroft, Don Rumsfeld and the boys...
Like the source of the project’s funding, the College has yet to determine which student groups will use the refurbished space. The Pudding building will continue to house its current residents—including the a cappella groups the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Pitches and the Theatricals—and will likely offer office, rehearsal and performance space to a wider student community than ever before...
...Most of them are not in a cappella groups, so I think it’s kind of nice—the untapped resources,” she said of the 10 finalists...