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Hamelin is a throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty...
...pseudo-intellectuals, physicists, Porcellian men, and Pitches to finally stumble upon that one special person to whom they can croon "It had to Be You." These students have evaded the Harvard meat market and have not had to search for a Layla, a showgirl named Lola, a red-lit Roxanne, a Jesse's Girl, a Run-Around Sue or an 867-5309 Jenny. Here are their lives. Brace yourself...
...tuna and subtly tangy spicy sauce. Cafe Japonaise has a chef who has turned sushi-making into a science and one can understand why he wants his clientele to get as much out of it as possible. It is obviously a sushi restaurant that wishes to transcend the fluorescent-lit clatter and bustle of its Boston counterparts...
...very look of the place is atypical: gone are the origami sculptures and cafeteria-like counters; waitresses in kimonos are nowhere to be found. Instead, Ella Fitzgerald croons from the stereo and marbled black tables are lit by suspended pearlate lamps. A richly-patterned curtain is elegantly draped to frame the window and an enormous fish tank full of exotic fish is sunk into the wall above the sushi...
...Harvard deserves our thanks for this much-needed change. We look forward to seeing our younger colleagues comfortably studying in their own well-lit rooms--and eating far fewer carrots...