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...really interesting mix for me,” says Reddout. “I really like history and exploring different cultures, and anthropology is a really hands-on discipline. I actually just spent the last summer living in the mountains of Spain with gypsy goat herders, studying their music for my thesis...
Cutmore-Scott grew up in London and came to Harvard after taking a gap year to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is an English concentrator, but has also studied Russian, Italian, French, and Portuguese...
Herbert, Hopkins, Goethe, and Dostoevsky are only a few of the voices that C.K. Williams conjures in his new collection, “Wait.” In one poem, he applies fertile Hopkins-like music to descriptions of dust and destruction, while in another he re-imagines a scene from “Crime and Punishment” in which Raskolnikov notices a “Jew on a Bridge.” But even as he takes on the styles or subjects of canonical writers such as these, Williams manages to consistently maintain the gentle, witty, and honest...
...even amidst his contemplations of selfhood and subjectivity, Williams also continually returns to the vivid observations that give his work such buoyancy. In “Riot,” Williams evokes the music of dawn’s approach after a tumultuous, sleepless night: “The first dawn crows / sound like humans imitating crows, / but hungrier than crows, or more afraid. / The rising light gilds / then slashes red the fallow fields.” Throughout “Wait,” Williams consistently reveals perceptions of the world unique to his own alert senses...
...variation on a surrealist parlor game, a small group of Harvard students pass around a blank sheet of manuscript paper folded like a fan, each one writing a line of music without being able to read any more than the musical notes directly preceding it. After each composer has contributed to the work, someone will sit down at a piano and play whatever surprising creation the group has devised...