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BACH AND HAYDN: MUSICAL OFFERINGS FIT FOR A KING. An instrumental ensemble from the Handel and Haydn Orchestra plays landmark works written for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. With Grant Llewellyn, directing J.S. Bach’s The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Super Thema Reale) and Haydn’s “Emperor” String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3. Saturday, March 1 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$56, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...someday break into Harvard’s established a cappella groups. It hasn’t been smooth sailing for these rookies, though. The Independent, for example, dismissed the Fallbacks as merely for “students who are interested in music and didn’t quite fit into the established a cappella scene.” As group member Gavitt A. Woodard ’06 says, this made them seem like a “bunch of incompetents clapping in time.” But one needs only to walk down the stairs to an otherwise unassuming...
...thousands of people converged on New York City’s East Side, myself included. I was, however, waylaid on Third Avenue by a series of police barricades. The police were nominally attempting to corral everyone onto the sidewalks, but not everyone fit. Not only were there people spilling into the streets, but the police, using vans and barricades, were themselves completely blocking the intersections. Between these bizarre turf battles were strips of empty asphalt, inaccessible not only to protesters but also to cars and other legitimate users. Smiling, one of my companions approached...
...Charles Hulse, a septuagenarian American from Arkansas and a veteran Galle Fort realtor, lived for years between Paris and the Greek Isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle Fort house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse warns that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs to 50% of the purchase price. "It is all very well to get a wonderful house near the ramparts for a song but unless you have someone on the spot to advise you and hold your hand, there are all sorts of problems that can cause major headaches...
Thus the ostensible focus of Friday’s panel discussion, where the Ivy League should fit in today’s changing athletic landscape. And while all three panelists missed numerous opportunities to comment at length on the league’s direction, author John Feinstein addressed the matter most directly in the early-going...