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Just how tough is the Crimson's schedule the rest of the way? In the next three weeks, Harvard will play seven games, three of which are against Top-20 teams, including both Penn State and Hartford on the road...
Despite a successful performance at the Harvard Classic last weekend, including two shutout wins over Hartford and Holy Cross, the Crimson (5-5) could not maintain their winning form against the Huskies (9-5) last night...
Harvard dominated the Hawks in the first game, winning 15-1. Hartford regained its composure in the second game and began to challenge the Harvard offense with better blocking, but the Crimson captured the second game...
Places is the opposite of a travel guide. It offers no impressionistic details of far-off venues, and the songs are not flavored with the spices of indigenous world-music forms. Instead, each of the pieces--Paris, Madrid, West Hartford and so on--is named after the location where Mehldau was when he began to compose it. He was out to capture not the region in question but the feelings of nostalgia he invariably had upon his departure. Writes Mehldau: "It seems like the grandeur of a place only reveals itself after I've left...
Mehldau, who was born in Jacksonville, Fla., and raised in Hartford, Conn., has on past albums shown a felicity for finding jazzy new complexities in the music of left-of-center rock bands like Radiohead; his rendition of the group's Exit Music (for a Film) is one of his best performances. Places reveals Mehldau's growing strength as a composer. He can be emotional (as on Airport Sadness), but he is never weepy. He can be jaunty (West Hartford), but he never descends into trifling silliness. And while his work tends to be courageously complex (the dizzyingly cerebral Amsterdam...