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Future violinist/guitarist/vocalist Irene S. Choi ’07 and drummer Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07 were fellow compers for Record Hospital, the underground rock program on student radio station WHRB. Klein met bassist Tessa B. Johung ’07 through a mutual friend. The fifth member of the band she found close to home: her roommate Karima M. Porter ’07 agreed to sing and play guitar, although she had never before picked up the instrument...
...Choi recalls how the band adapted to the absence of microphone stands: By taping their makeshift microphone to a Harvard-issued floor lamp. The band members had cheap instruments and small practice amps, and Choi says the first time she actually held a real microphone with the group was at their first show, a performance in the Quincy Cage that was, in Hufstedler’s words, “a total bomb.” The show was plagued by broken strings and other assorted equipment problems. At the time Porter had been playing guitar for less than...
...band’s first major off-campus test took place Monday at the Middle East. Playing on the small but comfortable upstairs stage, the quintet played for a respectable number, many of them friends from Harvard. The band played seven songs, all of them fast and energetic. Choi played electric violin to good effect. Porter and Choi chiefly split vocal duties, with Klein singing backup...
Though its offense started out slowly, Harvard was able to answer back with a trio of goals of its own, making the score 6-3 after the first period. Offsay scored three goals, while Marvin-Smith banged home two of his own. Senior Brian Choi and sophomore Alasandro Lazzarine each rippled the nets once...
...Popular Asian films, like their counterparts in North America, have a crucial movie element that is often lost in Cannes's worship of directors: star quality. Choi had already vaulted to celebrity in the Korean blockbusters Shiri and Failan. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li were bulwarks of Hong Kong cinema, before they decamped to Hollywood. And in India, actors like Amitabh Bachchan are near-deities. (Alas, the delirious seductions of Bollywood musicals still elude the Cannes programmers?no Indian pop musical has been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or in nearly a half...