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Three hours to go before the evening's performance and something isn't right. Sitting at a grand piano in St. George's concert hall in Bristol, England, on May 12, Derek Paravicini tears through a rehearsal of The Flight of the Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...Stephen Sondheim's and James Goldman's Follies, might seem in no need of excavation. The original production, in 1971, is well remembered, indeed cherished, by the folks of a certain age who haunt City Center. The fabulous CD is readily available. In the 80s a famous concert version (also on CD) was performed at Carnegie Hall, and just six years ago a not-so-hot Broadway revival - I should say embalming - was on display...
...born in Israel as Keren Ann Zeidel, grew up there and in the Netherlands until her family moved to France two decades ago. After two albums in French, she has since mostly recorded in English, and recently celebrated her new self-titled album's European release with a private concert at Le Réservoir, a small club on Paris' Right Bank. After adjusting her guitar and donning a harmonica holder, she launched into the new song "Lay Your Head Down," with her four-man band. As the song's opening steady drumbeat kicked up and the audience's excitement...
...that void. The band is scheduled to perform at Cambridge Queen’s Head pub on May 11 as part of an indie rock show. The performance is being organized by the College Events Board (CEB) and Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06. The concert will be free and open to all Harvard affiliates, according to a CEB press release and the board’s chair, Adam Goldenberg ’08. Goldenberg, who is also a Crimson columnist, said that there will also be two other bands performing at the pub that night?...
...Kristoff [sic], Pulitzer Prize Winner, Spring 2006.” Meanwhile, vocalist and guitarist Damian Kulash said the audience shouldn’t feel cheated by the lack of musical performance at last night’s event. “This will be remembered long past any rock concert you could’ve gone to,” Kulash said. —Staff writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...