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...crisp, the atmosphere even better, Nothing beats night games, regardless of how many people show up. For me, there's something pure and honest in standing under the lights and watching your team play (okay, I had gone to Malden Catholic, not Malden High, but that's a minor detail). I talked to people I hadn't seen in years while enduring both the chill New England weather and the noise of the subway (the station wasn't that far away). I hadn't felt an intimacy like this in awhile. Sometimes Harvard can feel as cold as the biting...
...harder for their personalities to shine. To be sure, Derek Jeter, the previously Mariah Carey-dating shortstop, seems kind of slick, and Paul O'Neill has a warrior self-hatred thing, banging into walls and throwing down his helmet whenever he grounds out. And Shane Spencer, a lifetime minor leaguer who was called up at the end of the season to hit a barrage of grand slams, seemed like the Natural. But this team kept even Strawberry and Wells politely restrained. They got the ridiculously self-monikered Rock Raines to go back to Tim Raines. None of them wanted...
...onto the stage, his brassy, clear sounds bringing the volume back up again after Marais' Suite. The Bach Sonata in E major was purely a Galway showcase, the other players fading in the background for once as he overwhelmed them with his flawless playing. The Telemann Quartet in D Minor, however, brought the whole group on stage for the finale, and all contributed to the success of the performance of that work. Huggett and Jeanne Galway, especially, shone in this work, Huggett's playing so clear and light that she almost sounded like a third flute. Feet were tapping...
...encores were an almost ghostlike reminder of the pleasures of the concert. First was a small technical piece for two flutes in E minor by a composer whose name seems to be Schulz, performed by the Galways. It was a fluttering piece that showed the Galways' ability to twitter adorably on their flutes at nearly the speed of sound. For the last encore--a repetition of one of the movements from the last work--Galway insisted that the audience close its eyes for the final farewell. As the musicians played the work almost inaudibly, the concert seemed to be fading...
Howells' best is definitely saved for last. In order to play Hamlet backwards, forwards, and backwards and forwards again even faster, she takes more minor roles in the first act, saving up for the emotional drain of playing the Prince. When the time comes, she is ready. Her Hamlet is worthy of the real RSC, and is thus the perfect target for the ravages of the ridiculous minor characters. Shakespeare frequently exploited the humor in those who take themselves too seriously, and Howells had the difficult role of doing just this throughout the play...