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...invention, “ricochet” bowing (where the bow ricochets across the strings to produce swift and un-slurred notes), with the utmost effect, swimming through 20 notes in a matter of a few seconds. Then, violinist and orchestra merged together, fortissimo, to produce an epic finish.Goto performed a surprise encore, wild and improvised. While plucking strings with his left hand, he masterfully maneuvered the bow with his right.After Goto’s solo, the orchestra returned to center stage. Their performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 was impressive, especially...
That’s Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” of course; a mock-epic, 15-part poem that contains every major mythological story of antiquity. Ten of these stories have been adapted to the stage by playwright Mary Zimmerman and produced at Harvard by Allison B. Kline ’09, Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, and Maria-Ilinca Radulian ’10. In the capable hands of visiting director Carmel O’Reilly, last Friday’s opening performance was sometimes spellbinding, sometimes frustrating, and sometimes both...
...While they may restrain him from concluding a pact of such epic importance, Singh can ill afford to lose the support of the communists, because their departure from his coalition would have forced snap elections 18 months early. If he had been counting on convincing the Left to drop its opposition to the deal at the eleventh hour, he has badly miscalculated. Communist demands that the government refrain from negotiating nuclear safeguards with the IAEA - the next phase of implementing the deal - have prevailed, and it is the government that appears to have been forced to back down...
...Major Barbara; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's war epic The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot, on her 21st birthday, Powell proposed marriage. (They never...
...everyone else’s. Richard Kelly’s “Donnie Darko” is a cult movie with a huge following. Centered on teenage angst, wormholes, and a big scary bunny, “Donnie Darko” remains the premiere sci-fi teen-epic of the decade, and its popularity has waned little since its release in 2001. A fair amount of debate surrounds the movie, as the storyline depicted therein reads nebulously at best. Purists may say that film is and can be the only medium appropriate for a proper treatment of the story...