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...said. “I feel like the struggles of the people in Oaxaca are similar to the struggles of African Americans in America.” Ogunnaike will use his fellowship to study music in the West African country of Mali. He has been playing the djembe drum since his freshman year and, last year, helped start the Harvard College Pan-African Dance Ensemble. Riley said she intends to travel to Seychelles, an island chain in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa, to work with an NGO on conservation and biodiversity through a local school...
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...drumline was also truly engaging. Staged as a battle between the junior high school students and three members of THUD, this piece was the only one featuring a guest performance. The added variety greatly bolstered the show’s entertainment value. The Roxbury Prep students played on their drum pads, buckets and garbage pans extremely well, with a level of coordination that exceeded that of most campus performing art groups. Their great skill suggested that they could have performed a more intricate and complicated piece.“Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24” was also a great holiday...
...World” is probably the best track Pharrell has mixed in a couple of years (apart from “Trill,” this recording’s knives-out club banger). Simple synth string lines surge and disappear, stabbing through the sounds of a protesting bass drum and a cracked cowbell. Pharrell’s so proud of his beats that he demands and gets a verse on “Mr. Me Too.” They can’t sink the album, but his name-dropping, collar-popping rhymes sure don?...
...puzzle further by listening to “Wind It Up” and wondering why she is sampling that song about the goatherd from “The Sound of Music” in the middle of verses spoken-sung over bombastic synthesizers and pounding drum machines (and the obligatory L.A.M.B. reference). She’s yodeling! Crazy, right? Yet something doesn’t feel right. The improbable success of “Hollaback Girl” was due in part to its refreshing quirkiness. “Wind It Up,” on the other hand...