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...Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here, in his only extant recording, is the Polish tenor De Reszke; the legendary voice is frustratingly obscured, but his Wagner and Meyerbeer heroes glow with virile grace...
Though surely more difficult, Sawyer-Lauçanno said his reliance on Cummings’ own writings rather than the accounts of friends and family resulted in the truest and most comprehensive extant portrait of the poet...
...night before I was planning to pass on the shirt, I received an e-mail from Joe Garcia ’84, confirming that he was its original owner. It had been a gift from Dollar-a-Pound, a still-extant used clothing store in the Garment District. He passed it on to his successor as a bit of a joke, never expecting it to last...
...Harvard Club of Boston was born in 1908, promptly establishing a still-extant educational scholarship program—last year, the club granted more than $260,000 to Harvard students. The main Clubhouse at 374 Commonwealth Avenue hosts events such as concerts, art exhibits, and dinners in honor of Harvard athletic teams. Membership is open to Harvard graduates and faculty...
Trans activists have done vital and significant work in recent years, albeit with little help from progressive, feminist, and queer communities. Transphobia is as grave a problem there as everywhere, and the relevance of trans concerns to other movements is under constant attack. The inclusion of trans concerns in extant movements—in a manner neither fetishistic nor tokenizing—is necessary if such movements are to avoid a self-negating hypocrisy. Transsexuality, transgender, and gender variance—though each denotes a distinct and specific identity—are often regarded as willful choices that could...