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...often enough by night) Thomas Seyr works for his thuggish father as a "property manager." Realistically speaking that means brutally removing tenants and squatters from apartment buildings so they can be converted to more profitable uses. But he is haunted by the career he abandoned-as a promising concert pianist, which his mother also once was. It's an improbably melodramatic premise-Golden Boy reset in Paris-and also a remake of the American film Fingers. But that reckons without the canny direction of Jacques Audiard and the appealing work of Romain Duris as the muscle man-musician. His efforts...
...obtain institutional support for their performance training.A LONG TIME COMINGYale College currently offers a joint program with Yale’s Graduate School of Music. Columbia University’s undergraduates have long been able to receive training at the Juilliard School. Many other schools give academic credit for concert training. Tufts undergraduates have the option of enrolling in classes at NEC. Even MIT offers credit for private lessons. But for years, undergraduate musicians have bemoaned the lack of opportunities for performance training within the Harvard curriculum.According to Peter L. Anderegg ’04, an alumnus who graduated with...
Facing serious failures with Wyclef and last year’s Snoop Dogg concerts, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) has taken much criticism and fielded questions about its competence for a good while. This weekend, however, the commission proved that, under the right conditions—and with collaboration—it can deliver on its promises. Saturday night’s Comedy for a Cause event, which was sponsored by the HCC and the Earthquake Relief Coalition (ERC) to raise funds for October’s earthquake in Pakistan, was a resounding success. Not only was the event enjoyable...
...crowded Sanders Theatre echoed with laughter as comedians hailing from Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm performed in Comedy for a Cause Saturday night, raising almost $10,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan.The show was sponsored by the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Earthquake Relief Coalition. Tyler O’Brien ’07, one of the shows’s co-producers and member of the HCC, said that the HCC and the Coalition worked well together.“[The Coalition would] use their infrastructure and fund-raising capabilities to motivate...
...while we urged the Corporation to choose someone who would not contribute to groupthink—as it seemed the Corporation might—we recognized that they had to choose someone who they could work in concert with. After all, while Corporation members may not see eye-to-eye, at the end of the day they have to build consensus and work together to effectively govern the University...