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...Layla and Majnun.” Before departing on a tour of Japan, the ensemble will present their retelling of this classic Middle Eastern love story as a work-in-progress to the Harvard community.CROSS-CULTURAL COMPOSITIONThe ensemble’s version truncates the original three-and-a-half-hour operatic score written for a full orchestra. While the original arrangement involved both Western and Eastern instruments, they were played separately. In contrast, this new arrangement attempts to blend the tonal qualities of Western and traditional instruments.“Our goal is to get away from this very obvious...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why Did the Cellist Cross the Silk Road? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...observers expected the President to announce state handouts to boost purchasing in a nationally televised interview Thursday on TF1 and France 2. Instead, Sarkozy told the public that getting more money into consumer pockets would have to come from people working longer - and effectively renouncing the nation's 35-hour workweek. "Get To Work, And No Gifts" headlined the leftist daily Libération Friday. "The End of the 35-Hour Yoke" celebrated its conservative rival, Le Figaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Wants to Change Work Rules | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...During an eight-hour court proceeding on Thursday, it emerged that a school secretary had been the first to raise the alarm. Teachers have alleged that Gibbons was the victim of a staffer trying to discredit the school rather than an offended parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outrage in Sudan Over British Teacher | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...Before Pring-Wilson’s testimony, the defense called character witnesses who vouched for the defendant’s “peaceful” reputation In the midst of one witness’s testimony, a power outage occurred, halting proceedings for an hour and trapping some people in the courthouse elevator. Proceedings resumed...

Author: By Lingbo Li and Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Pring-Wilson Takes the Stand | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and I loved it," he says. Punk soon proliferated as rapidly as cassette duplicates of the albums could be made, and Onie and his friends would meet nightly at Blok M - beside Jakarta's main 24-hour bus terminal - to swap bootlegs of albums by the likes of American punk rockers the Casualties and Scottish four-piece the Exploited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jakarta: Punk's Last Refuge | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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