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written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
Gregory A. Dorsainville '02, the station's general manager, is heading up one of WHRB's latest projects to encourage more Harvard students to listen. The station is producing a compilation compact disc of Harvard music--the greatest hits of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Mozart Society Orchestra, a handful of Harvard a cappella groups and the Kuumba singers--that Dorsainville hopes to send to incoming students the summer before their first year at Harvard...
BABY BOOM Children ages 3 and younger are the audience for entries seemingly crammed full of shapes, colors and second languages, often set to classical music. If you're trying one for your mini Mozart, Baby Shakespeare (Family Home Entertainment) is among the best produced. As soon as your little ones are ready to move from Bach to bop, they may enjoy the Australian group The Wiggles' video Toot Toot! (Lyrick Studios...
...choosing to attend Harvard, we chose to surround ourselves with the academic upper crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...
...been said that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, that something in the musical patterns stimulates intelligence. The author Stefan Kanfer proposes a counter-theory, which he calls the "Trazom Effect," after Mozart spelled backward. Kanfer's idea is that listening to certain people, or ideas, or music, can make a person dangerously stupid. The Trazom Effect is at work up and down the pop-cultural horizontal on which we live...