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...performance to the pseudo-classical Irish music rhythms, the music begins pounding again, but this time to a fantastically energetic rock background. Immediately, the performers begin swirling and kicking across the stage again, until everything builds up to....nothing. The music fades away with disturbing abruptness, and the curtain falls as the dancers are still moving. Had everyone only waited until the song ended on one clear note, the resounding energy would have undoubtedly brought everyone in the theater to cheering out loud all over again...
Maybe it wasn't really so lonely at night in the woods at the edge of the Scapegoat Wilderness, where the trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know was that for the past few weeks...
What exactly does go on behind the ivory curtain separating the walnut panels of the masters' residences from the postered walls of student rooms...
...here. Pure Imagination, with its light, sweet touch, leaves the listener wanting more. Perhaps he should consider covering songs from some of today's hottest Broadway shows--Rent, Ragtime or The Lion King. When a performer like Reed puts on a show this good, he owes the audience a curtain call...
Many of us know from personal experience how hard it is to reach out to one another, to show people how much they matter and how much you appreciate them. This task is made almost impossible by death, the great curtain that does not let us peek at what lies beyond. Last Tuesday, I saw my chance to do something for a respected and missed Harvard professor I had never had the chance to know, but who had touched me by touching those around me. Maybe it was small, but it was something, a minor affront removed...