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...rally may include speeches by athletes and performances by the band and campus singing groups, said Victor W. Hwang '93, the band's manager...
LIBRETTIST: DAVID HENRY HWANG...
...operatic dreadnought -- playwright David Henry Hwang, choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass...
...sheer size of the production, however, often overwhelms Hwang's elliptical text ("Goodbye to prizes and politics/ Goodbye to the warm part of my heart"), and the vast inner space of the Met renders the words nearly unintelligible (surtitles, anyone?). Although some of the coups de theatre are striking -- the wheelchair-bound Scientist intones the prologue while floating beyond the rings of Saturn -- too many of Pountney's and Israel's images seem to have washed ashore from Wilson's incomplete magnum opus, the CIVIL warS...
...People really identified with Harvard during the '60s," said Band Manager Victor W. Hwang '93. "The tough part is to get a big movement going...