Word: drums
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...them. The story is like a Dickens novel but with plenty of sex. Her father gets all his serving girls pregnant; his assistant gets Thiamine pregnant; the reform school she's sent to is run by a hairless sadist and his weird wife, who comes to orgasm beating a drum while the girls do their calisthenics. And that's just the first half-hour...
...music of “American Grace” also becomes wonderfully innovative in the second half. The orchestra incorporates unusual elements like an African djembe drum and operatic songs (performed by Meghan C. Joyce ’08 and Lauren-Rose King, a junior at New England Conservatory) into their accompaniment. These features complement the dance pieces in unexpected, but lovely ways...
Unfortunately, that’s about it. For all the pro-Women’s Center drum-banging about dialogue and awareness-raising, so far the net result of this victory amounts to little more than an expensive pile of free food and xeroxed paper—including song sheets for The (exclusively male) Din and Tonics, no less! Attendance at the Radcliffe Union of Students’ weekly meetings is already down from around 15 near the start of term to as few as four people nowadays...
...Keys” was met with many an anxious yell. When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs...
...Romeo at Juliet’s Grave.” The orchestra’s string players were particularly remarkable for their clear pizzicato and skilled glissandos.“Romeo and Juliet” is notable for its many solos, played by everything from snare drum to bass clarinet, and the HRO smoothly transitioned from one solo to another. Consequently, the solos served to enhance the orchestra’s ability to move its listeners with Prokofiev’s music.The evening’s performance had a dazzling finish with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony...