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...program began with a gospel performance by the Harvard Kuumba singers, and included remarks from Gomes, Counter, the Foundation’s undergraduate interns, and, in a surprise appearance, Mayor of Cambridge Michael Sullivan, who presented Jones with a key to the city...
OutKast's dominant season was no cultural blip. Andre and Big Boi have been stretching the boundaries of commercial music for a decade. From the initial weirdness of their songs about space aliens to B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad), their millennial drumand-bass gospel opus, they have proved that it's possible to be unusual, ambitious and immensely popular. In their own words, "We are/The coolest motherfunkers on the planet." --By Josh Tyrangiel
...women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening in 2002, more than 30 million children a year get no immunizations during their first year of life. And as many as 10% of them--from 2 million to 3 million--will die for the lack of just $30 worth of vaccinations...
...Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, a 90-member choir dedicated to the expression of black creativity and spirituality through song, are singing for their latest concert entitled “Brighter Day.” The songs will include African folk songs, traditional and contemporary gospel and original compositions. Tickets $12 regular, $8 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...production (directed by Joe Mantello) beyond including a new song, Something Just Broke, written for the 1992 London version. It's a nice addition to a score that is (oddly, given the subject) one of Sondheim's most tuneful and accessible, with its stylistic echoes of American folk ballads, gospel hymns, Sousa-style marches and turn-of-the-century waltzes. Sondheim has little patience for the long-voiced criticism that many of his scores abandon melody for astringent experimentation. "I do what is required for each show," he says. Besides, melody is "a very tricky word," he says. "When someone...