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...lack of a quorum—which is defined as one-sixth of the voting Faculty members—at yesterday’s meeting left at least one professor wondering about the aims of yesterday’s discussion. “Sometimes composers write music with an instrument in mind,” Professor of History Peter E. Gordon, who helped draft the legislation, said. “I feel like I’m doing that, imagining a tune that will never get played.” —Staff Writer Johannah S. Cornblatt...
...couple of years, Keren Ann's has evolved into more expressive, fuller and more melodic voice. She says it's because she's now writing in keys she's more comfortable singing in, not to mention all that journeyman time doing show after show. "Sometimes, when you play an instrument, there's a change where something clicks and you feel a kind of freedom [with it]. I guess at some point, it happens for your voice." And it's her fans, both longtime and new, who are reaping the reward...
...physical, and biological sources.”Musico didn’t start out in musical theater. “I am a pianist, by trade,” he says. “I grew up in a traditional Italian family that felt wholesome kids should play an instrument.” He began playing the piano at age five, and studied classical artists until high school. It was then that he began to explore jazz and musicals.The experience that would lead to Musico’s continued involvement with the performing arts occurred when he participated in Harvard?...
...Neither of my parents graduated from college,” Adams recalls. “[College] came up as just sort of a wish.”In his youth, Adams took up the clarinet. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, he had already mastered the instrument. “It’s a well-kept secret, but the clarinet is a rather easy instrument to master,” Adams adds humbly. Feeling that there was little for him to learn at a conservatory, and urged by parents deprived of college education to build a broad base...
...nothing to hide,” he said. “The whole [global] community is really after the most accurate satellite technology to track down where most pollution comes from, to see if countries are in compliance with international treaties.” The Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), used for this research, is unique for its daily global coverage. “Previously satellites...looked at [regions] every three days or every week, but OMI has the advantage of seeing the same place every day,” Wang added...