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...Heaven and Hell” also disappoints. A bouncy, whimsical number that recalls the lighter edges of 1990s indie pop, it also brandishes that genre??s worst impulses: childishness and condescension. The result is more than a little irritating, and closes the album on a distinctly sour note...
...start in the legendary Harvard Square folk venue Club 47, reincarnated as Club Passim. Her early recording of the Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk songs, is also representative of the area’s long-standing role in the folk music genre??the ballads were compiled by Harvard English professor Francis James Child...
...fencing are outdated, but our investment in archaisms, niche pursuits, and outlandish concentrations—not majors—is why we’re here. Jazz is no longer the seething cultural rebellion it once was—it’s quickly simmering into a classical genre??and for many, it’s just another goofy tradition that Harvard has saved from extinction. But it actually thrives here, which is part of why I was so eager to come to Harvard...
...it’s just so obvious.’”And so “Perfect Fifths” becomes a meta-fiction, and even its narrative point of view serves the themes of memory and revision. If it is chick-lit, it stretches the genre??s limits, keeping the best of its readability and trading fluff for wit.—Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...third and final piece on the program, was written in 1830, only three years after the Beethoven’s death. While Beethoven is considered a master of symphonic composition, Berlioz, with the production of “Symphonie Fantastique,” is credited with expanding the genre??s potential. By moving its traditional structure into a freer and more dramatic form he moved classical music further into Romanticism. The piece describes the opium-induced hallucinations of a young musician who dreams of his lover and has a variety of fantastical visions, culminating in a dance...