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...James P. Ferus ’07 arrived on campus knowing that all of his roommates, himself included, were musicians. On the first Saturday of the term, once he and his fellow occupants of Grays Middle 54 had settled in, Ferus decided to rally his roommates for a performance. On a whim he left a message on all the doors in his entryway announcing a recital to take place...
Peter T. D’Elia ’07, Robert E. Furrow ’07 and Matthew L. Tobey ’07 rose to the occasion and joined Ferus in performing a hastily assembled program of solos and ensembles for a handful of their classmates. Their first recital, despite its somewhat off-the-cuff character, generated enough buzz to warrant the establishment of a tradition...
There were snacks and drinks, refreshments made possible by donations from previous recitals. The atmosphere was that of your run-of-the-mill dorm room except that Ferus tuned his violin to an A provided by D’Elia from one end of the keyboard, while on the other end, Tobey echoed the digital tones coming from a cell phone in the room as someone tested out various melodic rings...
Last week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow...
More than 39,000 mounted flower specimens from all over the world were added to the Gray Berbarium of Harvard last year, bringing the University's study collection of flowering plants and ferus to a total of 1,033,850 sheets of specimens. It was announced today in the annual report of Professor Merritt 1. Fernald director of the institution...