Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mendelssohn performance began with the overture to a comic opera, The Uncle From Boston. The overture is rarely heard, and this performance marked its Boston debut. The libretto of The Uncle From Boston has been lost, but it is always refreshing to discover and hear a composer's lesser known works, much like finding more sonnets by Shakespeare or short stories by Hemingway. The beginning of the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, was more lovely than brilliant. Short and sweet, it was one of Mendelssohn's three single movement pieces for piano and orchestra...
...minutes, Harvard broke a trend that has burdened it all season--an inability to turn its numerous scoring opportunities into tallies. When a goal by senior Naomi Miller late in the first half finally put the Crimson on the board, it opened floodgates that had remained shut against lesser teams than the Northeast Conference-champion Lady Blue Devils...
...bicycle--the first time in 50 years, he told aides--around the grounds, his trademark checkered kaffiyeh flapping in the breeze, security agents following on a golf cart. It became obvious that any progress would require Clinton's presence; neither side saw value in giving concessions to anyone of lesser rank...
...laughs. "I prefer to say I've broadened." He talks about his heart attack in August 1996 and of being wheeled into an operating room for quintuple bypass surgery. "I was thinking of A Man in Full on the way in, maybe as a way of focusing on a lesser worry or because of the effects of the Demerol they'd given me." The operation was successful, and Wolfe emerged "euphoric. I was so happy to be alive that I started writing constantly, although mostly on things not related to the novel...
...very next track, "Build itUp--Tear at Down," cyber distortion combines witha relatively slower beat tempo and a conspicuously'80s hair-rock vocal refrain. The overall effectof these seemingly unrelated and clashing soundsamples can only be understood in the context ofFatboy Slim's mixing style and amazing abilities.In lesser hands, such combinations would soundawful, but it appears that Norman Cook can makeanything sound good...