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Last Saturday, the Bach Society Orchestra inaugurated its 54th concert season in Paine Hall with a stellar performance of Vaughan Williams, Paganini, and Beethoven. Guest violinist Ryu Goto ’10 captured the spotlight along with music director Aram V. Demirjian ’08, who led the orchestra with great professionalism.The evening began with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Overture to “The Wasps,” a popular selection from a suite written for a 1909 production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture...
...soldiers and weapons, was seen heading toward the border, according to the Associated Press. In Istanbul, the capital Ankara and the port city of Mersin, thousands of protestors, wearing black ribbons and waving the Turkish flag, denounced the PKK attack. Across the country, public events and celebrations (including a concert by the American pop star Beyonce in Istanbul) were canceled to mourn the army deaths...
...lead our little lives - running errands, tending the kids, making our livings. We endure our modest setbacks - we're late getting home, when we get there we're not as emotionally attentive as we might be - and our minor triumphs - the children perform endearingly at the school concert. But this we almost never acknowledge that tragedy of the kind that can forever shatter our middle class contentment is ever and always only a heartbeat, a hair's breadth, away...
...whistle in a sport that lacks flow at the best of times. A rugby revival depends on convincing the top whistleblowers that a Test match isn't the time to show off their grasp of every obscure law in the book. You don't halt a Springsteen concert because the man sang...
Harvard students will be piling into Sanders Theatre this Saturday, not for a lecture on Locke’s property rights, but to see five comedians from across the nation cracking jokes for charity. On Saturday Oct. 20, at 8 p.m., the Harvard Concert Commission will present its third annual benefit stand-up comedy show, “Comedy for a Cause 2007.” All proceeds will go to Kiva.org, a microfinance not-for-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs in the developing world...