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...Captain Brad Bunney, "Considering the number of injuries that plagued the squad after spring break. I think we ended with a respectable record." Bunney is dead right too. Steve Ezeji-Okoye was out. That meant that Harvard's one-two punch in the hurdling events was no longer a KO. With this in mind, the Crimson's loss against the Huntington Ave Hounds came as no surprise...
Although these songs are slow and evocative, they never wander or get lost in the background. In fact, only at the end with "Ko Ko Ku" does the music fail to capture and hold the listener's attention. This minor flaw occurs because the ambient music takes over and Anderson's voice becomes lost...
That synchronization is broken when the male chorus comes scrambling on in identical blue business suits. All the flurry and the coy comic extravagance of having Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner (Baritone James Billings), carry on like an insurance salesman who has been crushed beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage...
Alas, it was Ko-Ko himself who would be missed by sorrowful G&S fans in England and the U.S. (where the troupe made its first tour in 1879-80, for the premiere of Pirates of Penzance). Last week, after more than a century of continuous operation as a troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected...
Harvard's other two entrants, juniors Jackie Corrigan and Lisa Harrison, got KO'd in the third and fourth rounds, respectively...