Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tuning is still an uncertain science, performed with the orchestra in full swing around the timpanists. They have to find the perfect pitch despite the tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that's because they are testing their tuning. They're singing the pitch softly into the drum, and if it sings back, they know they have it right. A great deal of care goes into this process: as Beaver wryly...
...server. But the quality doesn't stop there. Add about a hundred witty second-graders and an inspiring real-life account of these underprivileged kids, and you have yourself a worthwhile story. I was charmed by the triumphs of Guaspari's inner-city hopefuls as they progressively transform into concert violinists, despite social challenges and bureaucratic obstacles. Streep and her young, wise-cracking sidekicks make a genuinely funny combination...
...climactic "Fiddlefest" scene where Guaspari's students give a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in aims of saving their program, I was overwhelmed with the energy and excitement I felt alongside the characters. I was so involved with the characters, that by the end of the concert, I wanted to stand up and cheer. I didn't. But I wanted to (and the last thing that made me stand up and cheer, remember, were the Backstreet Boys...
...Parents] want to feel a little part of what their children are experiencing (not counting hour exams, of course)," Lewis added. "If the weather is good, just walking around Harvard and maybe going to a concert or athletic event...
...recent concert of the Harvard Glee Club, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 says he was stunned to hear a cell phone that rang more than six times during what he calls a "particularly soft part of the music...