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...Patricia Van Ness. The less intricate piece served as a fine interlude between Brooks’s intense performance and the two final pieces.Joy-Leilani Garbutt from the Graduate School of Education played the second to last piece, a Louis Vierne Impromptu. This was another highlight, as Garbutt played through the difficult and diverse piece with clarity and poise.James E. Goldschmidt ’09 played another famous piece to finish the evening in Charles-Marie Widor’s Toccata in F-Major. The typically majestic piece suffered a little from a slow and inconsistent tempo...
...best. A full consultation of artists, cartoonists, and journalism experts on the issue was warranted. As an occasional artist myself, I draw inspiration from visual media I see every day and my artwork reflects influences by others, whether published or unpublished. Historical examples of reproductions of great masterworks also highlight the reciprocal and sharing nature of the world of arts and music. A slight aberration from another piece of painting can result in a masterpiece; art itself invites sharing and appreciation...
...again sings the national anthem at a sports game; on the show it was a baseball game, here it’s a rodeo, and he actually sings a made-up Kazakh anthem to the tune of ours (one highlight: “Kazakhstan number one producer of potassium, other nations have inferior potassium”). These jokes are all still funny, but a satirist of Cohen’s skill could certainly have devised new tricks to play on Americans this time...
...created the series—echoes a similar statement from the mouth of Jerry Seinfeld from his self-titled show: “Our lives. What kind of lives are these? We’re like children, we’re not men!” At the highlight of 90s television. Larry David—the episode’s writer and the show’s creator—masterfully captures the self-conscious relationship anxiety that made “Seinfeld” so fun to watch. Rhimes, too, understands her show’s basic appeal.She...
...only venue I’ve ever encountered that so beautifully brings together the most die-hard sports fans and the most athletically illiterate humans on Earth and every combination in between. It’s an atmosphere that you can’t capture via a highlight, from a story from your friend, or when you’re not there to see the end of the magnificence...