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...composer whose work is rarely soothing and more often than not unsettling, it's fascinating to watch Liza Lim attempt to calm her crying three-year-old son Raphael. "Do you want me to wheel you out?" she asks him at the headquarters of the Sydney Symphony, where Lim is composer in residence. She moves his stroller around the conference table, but still he whimpers. "Would you like some water?" Instead, Raphael calls out for his father, Daryl Buckley, who is artistic director of the new-music elision Ensemble, based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. "You want...
...tuned glass bottles. In the shifting tones, a faint harmony seems just out of reach. Lim likens the effect to "birdsong beginning inside the egg," a phrase she quotes from the 13th century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. Even classical audiences can find Lim's music obscure. "The point for Liza is not about winning a popularity contest," says her husband and collaborator Buckley, who studied with Lim at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. "It's not a conversation saying to the audience, 'If I write you another melody, will you love me a little bit more, please...
...love is surely what the world of contemporary music feels for Liza (pronounced Lee-za), 38. Barely out of the VCA, Lim was approached by Germany's Radio Bremen to create a new work for soprano and orchestra, and the febrile Voodoo Child (1989) was born. A flood of commissions followed, climaxing last year with her most ambitious work, Ecstatic Architecture, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's inaugural season at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Inspired by Frank Gehry's gravity-defying architecture, the piece saw Lim's musical standing soar. In November, the Festival D'Automne in Paris...
Erickson inherits a Crimson team that appeared in the NCAA tournament this season for the first time since 2001. While the team will lose co-captain back Liza Barber, co-captain midfielder Falyne Chave, forward Emily Colvin, and midfielder Alisha Moran to graduation, Harvard will return 14 letterwinners for the 2005 season, including junior goalkeeper Katie Shields and sophomore back Laura Odorczyk, who were voted co-captains of next year’s squad...
...second line of which Sifers is a crucial member, however, was not counted on for scoring punch this season. Instead, the unit—also featuring junior Carrie Schroyer and sophomore Liza Solley—became known for its intensity and aggressive fore-checking...