Word: lorca
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...next track, is very long and sleepy. It’s only followed by “I Like What You Say,” the album’s first single, which uses the same acoustic E chord for the entire song. At least this gives bassist Daniel Lorca, who weirdly resembles Kevin Spacey in a dreadlock wig, a lot of room for an interesting bass line. If it weren’t for the broken-record of a chorus, which just repeats “I like what you say” in different orders, this could...
...second act was filled with all the blood and aggression characteristic of a crime of passion—and by the end, nobody was complaining. “Bodas de Sangre” (“Blood Wedding”), written by the Spanish genius Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932, premiered as the first all-Spanish play to have ever been performed in a Harvard theatre. Directed by Christopher N. Hanley ’07-’08 and produced by Julie Ann Crommett ’08, “Bodas de Sangre” is the inaugural...
...theater. But how often does Harvard hear that tale told in Spanish?In a break with tradition, the newly formed student group “Harvard College TEATRO!” debuted a production “Bodas de Sangre” by Federico García Lorca in the original Spanish in the Agassiz Theatre last night. “Bodas de Sangre” (which translates to “Blood Wedding”), the first Spanish-language play presented by a Harvard student group, runs through tomorrow night.Teatro was formed in March 2007 with the goal...
...instead of an affirmation ("Let's turn this funeral into a fiesta," Agrado pleads) we get a dirge. Unlike the film, which offers an uplifting coda, the play closes with Rigg's melodramatic reading of a mother's threnody for a dead son from Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding, which features only briefly in the film. It recounts the moment she finds his carcass: "I licked the blood because it was my blood," she says...
...poem keeps getting better as it progresses. It concludes irresistibly with the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca, reincarnated as a limping sparrow, pronouncing gloomily: “Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don’t worry...