Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, journalist John Fraser and photographer Eve Arnold undertook to cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies...
...band, which will perform tonight at a dance at Lowell House, is one of the few campus-based bands that still performs its own songs. Their repertoire consists of about 40 tunes that they have written themselves plus about 10 cover tunes, says bassist Andrew E. Bush '90. Other members of the band include guitarist Daniel A. Brenner '85-86, drummer Richard C. Peaslee '89 and guitarist Michael Ross...
Bush, formerly the guitarist for the Harvard cover-band Christian and the Infidels, says that Green Fuse has not played Harvard parties often in the past because students on campus are not always willing to listen to bands that play original music. He hopes that this party signals a change in the musical tastes of students...
...four songs are "Dairy Queen," a hard-driving, solid rock tune, "Death Dirge," a haunting song with vocals that resemble the power found in the voice of Jim Morrison, "Sleeping Sara," a multi-paced melody with a 1960s sound, and a well-harmonized cover version of George Gershwin's "Summertime" that also has a 1960s flavor...
Green Fuse's decision to play predominantly original music comes at a time when many Harvard bands are only beginning to move away from cover tunes to play their own material. "There's a trend now where people are starting to work on their own tunes, which I think is cool," Bush says...