Word: levins
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...cast is perfect. Charles Levin knows how to play freaks. As the grotesquely funny Pa Ubu, Levin staggers around the stage as if he's broken his pelvis and cannot rotate his legs. "By my itchy dick" is his mantra. His gruff screams and almost Popeye-like facial expressions play into his wonderfully loathsome demeanor...
...Levin responds that a performer of music cannot merely enjoy performing or listening to music without truly understanding it. "Someone who wishes to spend a life doing this should have a deeper feeling [about music] when these issues come up," he says...
Funding is also a problem, according to Levin, because the University raises money to support existing programs, rather than to develop new ones...
...Harvard might try to think in long terms about how to enhance performance opportunities," Levin says, but it would do so only "by thinking very carefully and clearly...
...think its very important for performers to realize they find in me an empathetic figure, someone who listens carefully to their concerns," Levin says. "Students who wish to talk about performance should come to talk to someone who is a performer."Photo Courtesy of Harvard-Radcliffe OrchestraHarvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) and other orchestras attempt to make up for the lack of performance classes within the Music Department...