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...first year was not that great. I didn’t really feel I was a part of the NEC community,” says jazz pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, a chemistry and physics concentrator. “This year, I made my own initiative to go there more, and it’s been great...
Despite the dreary conditions outside, temperatures were rising on Friday evening in Lowell Lecture Hall during “Too Darn Hot,” a joint performance featuring Harvard’s Mainly Jazz Dance Company (co-directed by Taylor M. Owings ’08 and Alyssa N. Nylander ’08) and TAPS (directed by Erin P. McKenna ’09). The show was a thoroughly enjoyable evening of dance that was highly energized, widely varied, and enthusiastically executed...
...strengths of the weekend’s performance lay in its fast pace and well-planned program order. The evening’s mixture of jazz and tap, with a guest appearance by the South Asian Dance Company and a stunning Irish dance number thrown in for good measure, provided a recipe for success...
...Mainly Jazz Dance Company’s strongest appearance in the first half of the evening was a piece that choreographer Christina G. Vangelakos ’09 set to B2K’s “Take it to the Floor.” The high-energy piece combined elements of hip-hop and jazz for a fresh performance in which Kelly L. Fitzgerald ’10, Iris Odstrcil ’10, Owings, and Vangelakos truly shone. The choreography, which involved some demanding floor work and turn sequences, was generally strong but flagged a bit during...
...exquisite, sophisticated pianist, perhaps jazz's greatest, may have acquired some of his famed precision from the rough-hewn lessons of his father, who was known to beat him when he hit a wrong note, but Canadian Oscar Peterson's technical skills were only part of his genius. Peterson, whom Duke Ellington called the Maharaja of the Keyboard, took the piano to new heights as soloist; sideman (for Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie); composer; and leader of the Oscar Peterson Trio, which some call jazz's finest. He could hold back, then rip down the keyboard at lightning speed...