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...Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the Houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later...
Dreamy pop, electronica shadings, folk guitars and soulful vocals bend and blend together on No Angel (Arista), the debut album by British singer-songwriter Dido. Despite the denial in the title, this is for the most part heavenly music. The songs are sweet and soothing, but because they are anchored by strong, captivating beats, they never float away...
Parts of this album evoke aspects of other acts: the clear, warm vocals of Sarah McLachlan, the techno-folk of Beth Orton. Dido even looks a bit like Jewel. Dido's strong, throaty singing, however, distills her influences and makes her sound singular. Her lyrics could be a bit more pointed: "I just want to feel safe in my own skin/ I just want to be happy again" go the rather bland words to Honestly OK. But the real energy in Dido's songs is in the rhythm, in the smooth collision of genres and in the emotional details that...
Every morning at nine, Jarrett slips on a pair of flats and begins roaming the three floors of P.S. 154. After observing her ask The Question a number of times of wayward small folk, I tried it myself. When I spotted five-year-old Kenny in baggy jeans slinking along the wall on the second floor, I strode up to him and said, "Where do you belong?" He looked down, shuffled his little Nikes and mumbled the number of a classroom before shooting me a look that said, "Where do you belong...
...Dances at a Gathering, his signature piece. Martins, after looking at videotapes of dances Wheeldon had made as a student, invited him to do one for the School of American Ballet in 1994. Three years later, Wheeldon choreographed his first work for the main company. Slavonic Dances, a folk-flavored ballet with a fire-eating solo for Monique Meunier, the company's most exciting young ballerina, drew critical raves and kicked off a new phase of his career...