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...finest. The distinguished ensemble will accompany Kathryn E. Andersen ’07 and Brendan J. Gillis ’06 on the Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola & orchestra, KV364: Allegro Maestoso. Both soloists are prominent members of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. Aaron L. Berkowitz, a Ph.D. candidate in Music, who has played for such illustrious musicians as Misha Dichter and Joseph Kalichstein, will perform Piano Concerto No. 23, KV488: Adagio. Amanda Forsythe, soprano, will sing “Misera, dove son!,” KV369 with her silvery tone. Forsythe, who recently made...
...week, which started with a widespread assumption that Tony Blair, Prime Minister since 1997, was facing a crisis. The House of Commons was to vote on two measures, both of which, it was thought, might see his government defeated, despite the Labour Party's thumping majority in the lower chamber. Meanwhile, Gordon Brown, Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, partner, rival and anointed successor, was rumbling away, giving speeches that were not even barely concealed as the outline of the themes of his own future premiership. And Blair's deeply unpopular adventure in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
...emergence of a unique, musically innovative "Nintendo sound."As a genre, Nintendo music was notable for its ability to circumvent its own apparent limitations, using techniques strangely reminiscent of Baroque-era compositions. Harpsichords, like early pulse-wave synthesizers, don't have a very broad dynamic range, and the intimate chamber music then in vogue left little room for large orchestral instrumentation. The resulting musical trends are strikingly similar to the music of Nintendo composers. Since subtle variations in volume are less likely to be noticed, Baroque composers highlighted virtuosic intertwining harmonies, wrote pieces that avoided monotony through a variety...
...National Rifle Association may have met an immovable object in Florida: Big Business. The Florida Chamber of Commerce is fighting an N.R.A.-backed bill that guarantees the right to take guns to work (or at least to the office parking lot; guns would have to be kept locked up in a car). The bill would hit uncooperative employers with felony charges. "This time they crossed the line," says the Florida Chamber's Mark Wilson of aggressive N.R.A. lobbyists. With a similar Oklahoma bill stalled in the courts, Florida G.O.P. lawmakers are torn between two of their best friends. Take...
...Titled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future," it outlined in detail just how bad the situation was in nearly every area of research and called for new government funding. At about the same time, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce were issuing reports with similar conclusions...