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...Elegantly draped in flowing dresses and sporting flight-attendant smiles that never flicker, the 12 women breeze their way through easy-listening instrumental stylings of everything from Japanese pop songs to Chinese folk favorites and American jazz standards. The group's composer and arranger, Liang Jianfeng, says their sound "combines the best elements of Chinese and Western music." In practice, that means retaining just enough Chinese flavor to create an exotic sheen without alienating listeners unaccustomed to the moan of the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) or the plink of the pipa. The finished product is about as Chinese...
...turns out, Haruf wasn't done with the little town of Holt and its striving, melancholy folk. His new novel, Eventide (Knopf; 300 pages), picks up their stories about 18 months later and follows them through an eventful autumn, winter and spring. The old bachelor McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond, are now contending with the departure of Victoria Roubideaux, the pregnant teenager who came to live with them in Plainsong and has moved with her toddler daughter to another town to start college. There's a new focus on the slow-witted Luther and Betty Wallace, whose grasp of fundamental...
...Handler, a.k.a. author Lemony Snicket) will tour briefly in support of I, but Merritt is increasingly focused on composing for film and theater. He wrote songs for last fall's Katie Holmes movie, Pieces of April, and has collaborated with director Chen Shi-Zheng on two avant-garde Chinese folk operas, which were staged at Lincoln Center and Los Angeles' new Disney hall. "I'm enjoying working in theater, and I would happily never sing again," says Merritt. "But I am a bit torn. All the theater work is noncommercial, which means that there's no pressure to write...
...accounts the roundtable should have been over by now. The four singer-songwriters participating in the interview have been sitting for over an hour in Mather’s Senior Common Room, discussing in meticulous detail their experiences as participants in Harvard’s folk rock community. The humidity is forcing the air to an ungodly high temperature, but the conversation is showing little sign of wearing down...
...question of community is perhaps the foremost interest for the campus singer-songwriters. To varying degrees, all four interviewees feel that no tight-knit cooperative spirit really exists among the Harvard folk community, and their explanations are wide-ranging...