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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gathers some of the most talented musicians on campus, but in their third concert of the year—performed last Friday night—there were moments when the whole seemed weaker than the sum of its parts. After a wavering start, the evening picked up with Aaron Copland’s jazzy “Clarinet Concerto,” played by Andrew P. Lowy ’09, and concluded with a sparkling performance of Hector Berlioz’s classic masterpiece “Symphony Fantastique.”The performance...
...project in the hope that Obama would soon lift federal restrictions. They now intend to seek federal support for the project, he said. Kevin Casey, the University’s chief lobbyist, said that Harvard has long called for such a decision, both individually and in concert with the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, a national bipartisan research advocacy group. And the timing of the announcement may allow Harvard researchers to apply for federal funding to support embryonic stem cell research, Casey said. “With the stimulus bill legislation, it would have been a shame...
...past Sunday’s Symphony Hall solo recital, a presentation of the Celebrity Series of Boston. His performance, which fused musical mastery with a hearty dose of his characteristic flair for the dramatic, proved all of the hype about him was well justified. Settling himself at the Steinway concert piano, Lang opened with a poetic rendition of Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959. In the first movement, the interplay of soprano and tenor voices created a chorus of classical lines that conveyed a dialogue of teasing questions and indignant retorts. Raising...
...untenable emotional connection. The former includes lines like, “Lately I don’t feel as if I lived with you,” and later on: “I love you as much as I ever did.” “Concert at the Gardner Museum” and “Lobby of a New York Hotel” meditate on the power that even the passer-by can hold over a person. “Imagining the Imprisonment of Ms. Lu Hsiu-Lien” and “Anne Sexton...
...when depicting played a central role in religious rites, when dance was the act that taught man how to work and live in synchrony. OK, yes, I’ll admit, it was pretty long ago when dancing around the campfire equipped us to hunt down our dinner in concert, but not so long ago that it should seem perfectly natural for us that art plays so small a social role, that it has become a superficial structure, layered on top of “real” material existence. In fact, I could argue that art, in its original...