Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rock opera, the musical is an innately modern version of Jesus' adult life and crucifixion, but to be successful, a production of Superstar must engage the audience in the world of the play. And the Leverett House version does just that, by setting the scene right in Harvard Square...
...freshmen, graduate students, and disaffected musicians and singers from other Harvard ensembles, MMV recently expanded its core to 41 musicians--including the conventional orchestral brass, strings, flutes, reeds and percussion, as well as 14 singers, a lute/guitarist, a harpsichordist, an Irish harpist and recorders. "We're not exactly a modern orchestra," Tokuno says...
...intent of this unusual line-up is to simulate Renaissance intstrumentation, MMV musicians say. Although modern instruments are not identical to Renaissance instruments, playing techniques can transform the sound of oboes, bassoons, trombones and violins into that of more exotic instruments, such as shawms, dulcians, sackbuts and vielles...
...concert, this Sunday at Paine Hall, will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Dutch War of Independence with a program called "Music from the Netherlands." The program will pay tribute to Dutch and Flemish composers of the Renaissance, who Tokuno describes as a primary influence on "what we call modern music, starting with Bach. [The Dutch school] became a longstanding and powerful tradition that influenced every country in Europe...
...principle of paying back your debts remains one of the foundations of our society. Enforcement of contracts is one of the primary functions of the modern liberal state. What would happen if banks refused to honor their checks or the government stopped paying interest on savings bonds? It is disturbing that college graduates, the future leaders of America, pay such disregard to one of the basic tenets of our society...