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Gilbert and Sullivan operettas exist within a world of their own. To begin with, the comedic works are distinctly British and distinctly Victorian. But even beyond their spatial and temporal remoteness, the pieces tend to play themselves out in a bizarre alternate world, where identities are often mistaken and endings rarely make sense.The history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) has often unfolded in a manner as quirky and topsy-turvy as the comedies themselves. The kings and controversies of Gilbert and Sullivan’s libretti seem to jump from the stage into the group?...
...colorblind’ society, our society continues to treat people differently based on their race and ethnicity.” While it is possible to disagree about the degree to which racial differences affect life experience in America, only the most foolish would suggest that they do not exist. Yet what is profoundly mystifying to me, is why racism, or “differential treatment,” or whatever else one sees fit to call it, is somehow supposed to magically skip over Asian Americans in general and the sort of first-generation Asian Americans taught by my mother...
...Never will the Harvard community see men and women decked out in top hats and hoop skirts around campus these days. Gilbert and Sullivan: 50 Years of Whimsy, Onstage and Off By ALINA VORONOV Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:41 PM Gilbert and Sullivan operettas exist within a world of their own. To begin with, the comedic works are distinctly British and distinctly Victorian...
...Yalies joining in. But for some unfortunate thrill-seekers, the fun was dampened a bit by poor signal reception. “We’re not only dancing to music people can’t hear, we’re dancing to music that doesn’t exist,” says Winifred A. Garet ’10. The reception improved as the night went on, and the truly hardy weren’t stopped by the lack of music-they kept dancing anyway. According to Nicholas L. Tsang ’07, Present! member and event...
...criticized “out-of-scale” presidential salaries before—he wrote in a 2002 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that “a huge presidential salary tends to exacerbate tensions that too often exist between faculty and administration.” But he said yesterday that he did not mean to send a broader message by doing his job for free this year...