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SJE’s final piece, “Manteca,” began with an interesting, introduction by THUD. SJE crept into the piece slowly, instrument by instrument, and the performance then rather suddenly crescendoed and swung into an upbeat, rhythmically fast-paced piece. The unexpected upswing thrillingly caught audiences off guard. After this performance was met with wild applause, there was a brief intermission to allow THUD...
...directors Danielle R. Lehle ’07 and Sonali Palchaudhuri ’07. Palchaudhuri initiated the THUD performance in the same way, she said, that all THUD performances begin—by having the audience perform. Dividing up and assigning each audience section an instrument, Palchaudhuri led each one in playing various rhythms before having the whole audience synthesize their performances. With the audience’s rhythms in the background, the THUD performers filed onto stage, completing the interactive musical piece with their own parts. The THUD interaction with the audience not only engaged it but also...
...science, achieved a high degree of sophistication, inspired, in part, by religion: Muslims needed to determine accurate times for the five daily prayers, the exact location of Mecca, and the beginning and end of the holy month of Ramadan. On display are some of the oldest texts and instruments related to the study of the heavens. They were created to answer specific questions, but they also uncovered natural phenomena that helped explain celestial processes. In his Book of Fixed Stars, 10th century scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi provided exact coordinates for 1,018 stars and 48 constellations. A 14th...
...general admission including free CD. (ABW)Balafonist Neba Solo. Harvard’s African Initiative present the Mali-based musician and his troupe. Called “the genius of the balafon,” Souleymane Traoré, aka Neba Solo, plays his xylophone-like instrument. Loker Commons. 3 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. (LAM)Harvard’s Next Top Angel. The Fallen Angels present a night of fun, fearless a cappella with the all-male Derbies of Brown University. Lowell Lecture Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...shockingly, the place was packed. Honestly, The Hotspot didn’t even know it was legal to have fun on a Sunday night in Cambridge. No one told the crowd, though, because they were as into the music as the people on stage. Of course, judging by the instrument cases propped against every vertical surface, most of them were there to perform. It may have been an open-mic night, but there was nothing amateurish about it—these people knew what they were doing. The open-mics have no cover—if you?...