Word: jr
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John Allanbrook first heard Ethan Frome fragmentally on a demo tape his father had recorded in the '50s. After hearing the tape and reading the score, Allanbrook Jr. became convinced, that "it was a good piece and meant to be preformed." Ethan Frome is hardly a simple musical undertaking, demanding not only a well-appointed string section, but also a full brass section, concert bassoon, bass clarinet. English horn and piccolo. After informing his father of his production plans, Allanbrook Jr. spent 12-hour days throughout the summer entering the score into the computer program Finale in order to produce...
...first year, he is paying the orchestra members for their time, creating a new standard in the Harvard pits which is usually staffed by under-rehearsed, if generous, volunteers. Likening parts to "the romantic climaxes of West Side Story" and others to "Jaws 20 years before its time," Allanbrook Jr. emphasizes Ethan Frome's unique ability to "bring down the idea that opera is a rarified musical form" because it is "accessible and unified--as music and theater should be when put together...
...deem every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Halloween, Jr. and gorge yourself with candy to fully capture the spirit of the holiday...
From the front row DuBois Professor of theHumanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. followed,asking Goldberg why she thought Beloved"failed at the box office." Goldberg declined apublic debate with Winfrey...
...week?s election by voters with a laundry list of more important concerns. But for the House Judiciary Committee, it?s still the most pressing matter in America -? as Monday?s strange parade of legal scholars and historians bore witness to. And what did luminaries such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Watergate veteran Rev. Robert Drinan largely agree on? That you can?t, or shouldn?t, censure the President. It?s impeachment or nothing. And that puts the rabidly pro-impeachment GOP majority on the committee on a crash course with public opinion...