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...second movement, orchestra members’ technical precision shone as they navigated through the difficulty of playing an irregular 5/4 time that was meant to be played with the style of a waltz in 3/4 time.The HRO appeared at its very best in the third movement. The movement??s grandiloquence and force may have been a little too overbearing at times. But, the powerful close of the third movement evoked a “Bravo!” from a listener and unconventional applause from the audience between the movements—a practice usually frowned upon...
...wind section. The slow third movement was highlighted by the healthy sound created by the first violins, in partnership with the principal flute Jonathan G. Sherman ’07. Demirjian seemed in his element as he guided the orchestra to an graceful and unified closing of the movement??something that is beyond the reach of many student orchestras. The final Allegro was undoubtedly the favorite of the brass section, who nevertheless resisted the urge to overblow the exciting theme. The strings and winds played the technical sections leading up to the final crescendo with a clarity that...
...Thomas’s daughter was a freshman in June 2001 when Massachusetts Hall was taken over by the Progressive Student Labor Movement??better known as PSLM. "It seemed like the old days for a moment," Thomas says, "but it quickly became clear that the students who took over weren’t that angry." He was amazed to discover that some student activists would call their parents—many of whom were once college activists themselves—for advice. Rather than rebel against their parents, as students did in the 1960s and 1970s, they were...
...instead of hunting down the movement??s precursors, examining the actual music with a critical eye, or constructing a plausible narrative of the scene’s downfall, Rachman just lets former band members talk about how much cooler they were twenty years...
...another New Yorker—Robert F. Kennedy ’48, the Empire State's one-time senator. A crusader who took on some of the toughest fights of his day—against mobbed-up unions, for example, and in favor of the civil rights movement??Kennedy, like Spitzer, was seen by critics as ruthless and arrogant. Supporters, on the other hand, saw a fundamentally decent man with the spine to effect change...