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...Commonwealth Ave., where a large crowd assembled. Courtney Snegroff, an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, estimated that more than 200 workers and their families participated. The group marched up and down in front of the Harvard Club, waving signs, shouting slogans, and banging percussive instruments??—at one point marching onto the street and blocking traffic. They protest migrated around to the entrance to the club’s parking lot as guests were arriving for the speech. Dr. Wolfgang Klietmann, Lecturer on Pathology at Harvard Medical School, drove through the protesters...
...bowls, plates, drinking glasses, dining hall trays, whisks, and even a cheese grater. They play this tableware with drumsticks, utensils, and their hands, creating a varied and loud beat while pretending to be at a restaurant. When dancers dressed as waitresses clear their places, grabbing the “instruments?? away, the drummers just pound on the tables. Although the idea may seem reminiscent of the hit broadways show Stomp, the interspersion of this scene within the rest of the performance creates a show-stopping theatricality that sticks in the mind...
When the lights dimmed and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) took the stage, Sanders Theatre was filled to the brim with a massive well-dressed crowd. The concert opened with Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments?? written in late 1920 based on a group of piano pieces composed earlier that year in honor of Impressionist composer Claude Debussy...
Because the style of making instruments has evolved over the centuries, the instrumentalists also use “period instruments?? to make their music sound like it did at the time of the piece’s premiere. And despite its misleading name, the society, founded in 1815, has a repertoire that extends far beyond the works of Handel and Haydn...
...traditional instruments??mandolin, banjo, accordion—and a lot of our songs are about traveling,” Warren says. One of her original goals was to create a 12-song concept album with each track featuring a different city. Though she did not achieve the feat, she says the influence of that idea is nonetheless evident on the Great Unknowns’ debut...