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...tracks—available to Harvard affiliates via the HOLLIS catalogue. The program, which is currently under a test-run slated to end Jan. 31, will give students access to much of HCL’s compact disc collection as well as additional music in the classical, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music genres. Thanks to the efforts of Constance A. Mayer, Public Services Librarian for Harvard’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library and several other members of the HCL team, the new service will drastically reduce the inconvenience to students, who currently are not permitted to check...
...early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke kindly of his dad, but he did inherit...
...dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth - or you could just enjoy the boys' exuberance. All the short-listed Turner Prize works are turbulent and politically engaged. In Lagos-based Yinka Shonibare's Un Ballo in Maschera, elegant dancers in bright 18th century costumes re-enact a historical regicide to a soundtrack...
...Kiss Me Kate might be subtitled 'The Taming of the Show.' Based on the Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base ... The plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so, if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...
...dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth?or you could just enjoy the boys' exuberance...