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...Composer [Paul Rivera] will perform with us on stilts, singing and playing guitar, along with a chamber ensemble of Harvard student musicians. Harvard alum[na] and aerial silk artist Marin Orlosky will be suspended eight feet in the air as dancers, a stilt-walker, and musicians perform on the stage below her,” Walker elaborates...
...series of caves, L'Hotel in Pietra is an airy boutique property where the rooms, which start at around $160 a night for a double, feel like private archaeological museums. In one suite, glass is embedded in the floor so guests can peer down into the medieval water-storage chamber, and a rain shower is built into the cave walls. Carefully placed lighting and thoughtful details, like the words "Dear Guest" stitched in Portuguese on the bed linen, warm these ancient stone rooms - and make the fact that livestock used to have the run of the place...
...China's Ministry of Commerce rejected the European chamber's complaints of protectionism, saying the country tries to offer a level playing field for all foreign and domestic businesses. But because China has not signed the World Trade Organization agreement that limits protectionism for government procurement, foreign governments have little recourse. China's National Development and Reform Commission said in June that except in cases where the necessary technology is unavailable domestically, funds from the country's $586 billion stimulus package should buy Chinese-made equipment...
...musical medley, and a world premiere of a wind orchestra setting of the classic jazz song, “I Remember Clifford,” written by saxophonist Benny Golson. Thomas Everett, the Director of Band since 1971, was commissioned to arrange the Golson piece for a wind chamber group ensemble, and chose the occasion of the Montage concert to debut the piece...
...dogged an effort every day as Schumer. A week after the Senate Finance Committee rejected two versions of a public plan - including one authored by Schumer - the New York Democrat was still "very optimistic" about the chances of one ending up in the final legislation passed by the chamber. Indeed, despite the fact that President Obama has refused to endorse the idea as a must-have provision and that Olympia Snowe of Maine - the lone Republican Senator still supporting any version of health reform - remains opposed to it, Schumer has never given up his hopes of crafting a workable compromise...