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Collins repeatedly stressed the importance of publicity during his rehearsal-break briefings, recruiting people to put up posters, table outside the Science Center, and sell tickets to friends. Collins, for his part, drove around Boston posting flyers at other colleges, including the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory, where classical music is predictably more popular...
...high-profile female vocalists to accompany the orchestra. For the second piece of the night, Yannatos took the podium and conducted Blauvelt’s “Pishi,” a melancholy number with Paula Murrihy, an Irish mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. The piece, sung in Russian, began with an ominously dissonant moan from the orchestra, which swelled to climax as Murrihy sang her despondent first lines...
...besides, almost anyone could guess with some accuracy as to what “Outlandos D’Amour” means; The Police weren’t trying to be difficult. “Bem-Vinda Vontande” is in Portuguese, which is not as popular in England and America, the bands’ obvious markets. But there may be an explanation. This title, along with the last Mice Parade album, “Obrigado Saudade,” supposedly translates into the phrase—“Thank You Nostalgia, Welcome, Will...
...last Harvard signal-caller to catch a glimpse of the pros was quarterback Brian Buckley ’81, who was drafted by New England in the 11th round in 1981 and saw preseason playing time before getting cut early in the season...
...personal theory is that [New England head coach] Bill Belichick—who appreciates, probably more than anyone in the NFL a player’s intellectual skills—has Fitzy’s name written on a board somewhere,” Shanoff said. “He’s going to grab him in the 6th round, and he’ll be backing up Tom Brady...