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Tutu charmed the audience with his enthusiasm and energy, calling himself the “token male” on the panel and pumping his arms to the cheers of the crowd when Huerta noted that all humans were Africans, since the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa...
...Wednesday, former Vice President and Nobel laureate Albert A. Gore, Jr. will speak to a crowd predicted to number in the thousands. Environmentalists are bursting with excitement to hear the pronouncements of the godfather of green. More than just excitement is the possibility that Gore’s speech will slingshot the university community into an eco-fervor that will put us on course to beat President Faust’s greenhouse gas reduction goal...
...pizzicato accompaniment of the strings, which gave a sense of dance to the entire movement. The third movement, a joyous “Nutcracker”-esque march, is the emotional highlight of the symphony. Although the brass became a little overpowering, the movement ended so strongly that the crowd burst into premature applause. After a short smile from Levine to inform the audience of their mistake, the orchestra began the fourth movement, which is one of the most passionate laments in the orchestral repertoire. The recurring pleading melody in the strings evoked a mind full of torment, leading into...
...Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), led by Benjamin Zander, stirred the Sanders Theatre crowd Wednesday night with an inconsistent but lively and competent performance of works by Bartók, Saint-Saëns, and Dvorak, demonstrating the classical music world’s continuing effort to resist the genre’s arguable decline.The concert—which was the BPO’s first of the season—was part of the “Discovery Series,” a group of concerts designed to broaden classical music’s audience. The premise of the series...
...forcing a Crimson timeout. Recovering quickly, Harvard used a junior co-captain Lily Durwood-senior Kathryn McKinley set-kill combination to quell the Lions’ surge. From there, three Columbia errors allowed the Crimson to cruise to the 3-0 shutout.CORNELL 3, HARVARD 2Amidst a lively crowd with both team affiliations well-represented, Harvard duked it out with Cornell on Friday in a marathon game that culminated in a 3-2 Big Red win. “That’s what we define as heartbreaker,” Kocurek said. The teams jostled for the lead throughout...