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Harvard has raised the curtain on new secondary field programs for budding actors, dancers, and musicians seeking formal recognition for their work. Minors in music and in dramatic arts, which includes theater and dance, recently became available to undergraduates. Students of drama in particular have long pushed for more academic acknowledgment, either through the creation of a department or concentration. “There’s been a long and difficult process getting credit for theater,” said Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed...
...betting these albums earn.But for once, the Something defining a Radiohead album might be immediately identifiable. If “OK Computer” revivified rock and became an undisputed classic; if “Kid A” exorcised rock music’s antediluvian fears of electronic music; if “Hail to the Thief” was the most haunting expression of post-9/11 anxiety that music has yet produced; then “In Rainbows” is Great chiefly because it’s an album.Sort of. It?...
Annoying pop-rock zit-poppers Fall Out Boy and jaded nerd screamers My Chemical Romance also make bad music, but at the very least their products are aggressive in their mediocrity. Their albums are interesting in the way the Weimar Republic and Crystal Pepsi are interesting: in 20 years people will look back on their work and wonder bemusedly just what everyone involved was thinking...
...faux-angst that lead-singer Jim Adkins’ voice projects, the album as a whole is without heart. Where mobs of skinny high school boys could once connect with the band’s intense—albeit fractured and unfocused—honesty, here the music sounds cheap and phoned-in. It’s easy to get lost in the monochrome sheen of throw-away numbers like the title track and its counterparts...
...Chase This Light” is a painful example of a band that has come to believe that making music is no longer a dream...