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...legend in my own mind," Captain Lou Albano said in a 2007 interview. But he was also indelible in the minds of others. As the put-upon father in Cyndi Lauper's iconic music video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," Albano, who died Oct. 14 at 76, lingers in the memory of anyone who lived through the 1980s...
...well as hair ties on his epic gray goatee--and was forever hitching up his too baggy pants. This unforgettable appearance made him a perfect point man for a WWF marketing venture dubbed the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection, a cross-promotion in which Albano popped up in several Lauper music videos, while the pink-haired singer in turn graced numerous WWF broadcasts. The effort is credited with propelling the WWF (now the WWE) to widespread popularity...
Despite being steeped in two centuries’ worth of tradition and history, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has adapted to its new leadership with surprising musical ease. Federico Cortese’s debut concert with HRO on Saturday night featured an ambitious program of Berlioz, Debussy, and Tchaikovsky; its success confirmed that the departure of longtime music director Dr. James Yannatos has not compromised the musical and technical standards of the ensemble...
Arriving on the coattails of one of Harvard’s longest serving music directors is a formidable challenge, to say the least, but Cortese already seems to have established a musical rapport with the orchestra—a relationship that became evident during Saturday night’s performance. Given the ensemble’s remarkable responsiveness to Cortese’s blend of unbending precision and interpretive plasticity, one can only imagine the degree of artistic cohesion HRO may realize after a few more years under Cortese’s guidance...
...nothing inherently modern about John Eccles “Semele.” Written at the beginning of the 18th century, the Baroque opera narrates an Ancient Greek myth about a mortal protagonist whose jealousy for her divine lover costs her her life. But Harvard Early Music Society’s production of “Semele,” which ran this past weekend at the New College Theatre, manages to spruce up the antiquated setting quite a bit, perhaps predictably arranging the action in America’s own period of mythical free love and divine (ahem, drug...