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...back to life at a moment’s notice—sets the figurines apart from the static nature of most statues.The historical context of these porcelains was the subject of a day-long symposium, “Tables of Content,” and a dance and music performance that took place in the Sackler and Fogg Musuems this past Saturday. “I wanted to highlight this aspect of porcelain that people are not familiar with, and try to show people who are not interested in porcelain at all that you might think you know everything...
...until a few years ago, jazz had little place on the college campus. It was music fit for night-clubs, sleazy joints and bad hotels.” This description could very well apply to the status of jazz at Harvard today: though most students are aware of its existence, few devote substantial time or serious attention to either its study or its performance. But the quote is not a description of the current jazz scene: it comes from a 1974 article by Jim Cramer ’77 in these pages, reviewing a Harvard Jazz Band concert with trombonists...
...Highway of Endless Dreams” builds steadily upward from a tantalizing guitar progression into an electronic sea that swirls with waves of radio noise and a computer-processed chorus. On “Graveyard Girl,” Gonzales resurrects the perfect moment of the music he reveres. The choruses are so sublimely immersed in living sonics—and balanced ingeniously against verses with little more than drums and vocals—that the transitions between the two are huge, bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken...
...typical Harvard student what the best part of Harvard is, you’ll receive answers ranging from academics to athletics. But if you ask Lauren Yapp ’09 she will tell you that her best experience at Harvard has been mariachi. One of the few cultural musical groups on campus, Mariachi Veritas, of which Yapp is a member, attempts to enliven traditional mariachi, playing recent compositions and including female members, an accordion, and many non-Mexican members. “We’re not a cliché,” Mariachi Veritas president Beatrice Viramontes...
...stories have all been told before.” However, it’s not the unoriginal plot or the fairly commonplace characters that keep the audience engaged. Rather, director Wong Kar Wai’s attention to detail, artful editing, and the blending of music with images create a film in which sensory appeal outweighs predictability. Although Jones plays the main character, her static performance serves as a backdrop for the more dynamic characters she meets along her journey. Rachel Weisz, playing a trapped wife who despises her husband, transitions with ease between self-satisfaction, raw rage, and disbelieving...