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Radcliffe Choral Soc., '96 W. European Tour & Special Projects Mgr; HMC '96 Chief of Staff; JV Softball; Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Admissions Council...
...Arts in Boston, the organizations included in "Practice and Performance" have only the vaguest correlation to the OFA. They are ordinarily self-sufficient entities which would not have existed except for student initiative and would just as easily pass from the scene without it. Take, for example, the Radcliffe Choral Society which rehearses in Paine and Lowell Halls and Sanders Theatre. In order to conduct after-hours rehearsals in those locations, the Society has to pay for security guards, yet it receives no financial support from...
...never mind the 10-minute standing ovation--nearly unheard of from a Salzburg audience--that followed the stirring, soaring strains of the closing choral ode. The truth is, the evening was a triumph for Kaplan, whose infatuation with the Second Symphony dates to a chance encounter with the music in 1965. As a young economist working on the American Stock Exchange, he attended a performance led by Leopold Stokowski. "I felt like a bolt of lightning had gone through me," he recalls. "The music just seemed to wrap its arms around me and never...
...darn brown? As in Les Miz, earth tones predominate here--except in the peasants' garb, nicely creased and Rinso white. One thing about these villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre is big; it should have been grand...
...valuable as that class was, it is not enough. Chamber music is only one part of the vast musical canon. At Harvard, because of concentration and other Core requirements, I will not take a class on symphonies, opera or choral works, and I will be the poorer...