Word: musics
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...Chamber Players, cramped into the narrow alter area, launched into the evening's program sans conductor. My fears were quickly dispelled as it became clear that a tall man waving a baton would only have gotten in the way of this new student group. This is how string chamber music was always meant to be performed. Each player eerily synchronizes perfectly with the rest, with every head swaying in time to the rhythm. In the intimate playing atmosphere they create with the audience the joy of music is clearly evident in the musician's faces. Recently formed in the fall...
...Brattle Street Players fully deserve the standing ovation they received from the audience. One extremely minor complaint is the concert's length. While performed beautifully, their program is distressingly short, covering less than an hour and a half's worth of music (intermission included). With such accomplished players there should be no squirming in seats if a lengthier performance is offered. One hopes that the Players will share more, and more frequently. See The Brattle Street Players play a free concert Saturday, May 8 in Sanders and assure them a good audience...
...score was a mixed bag, but it gets the point across. Valerie sang an amusing blues piece in which she descended to the pit and flirts with pianist Alex Healy '02 (who wrote the song). The coyly effeminate Pp (Adam Kline '02) danced a bizarre music-video parody on the subject of black leather. Annie Tigani '02, as one of several dimwitted Wellesley girls, sang a gratuitous but excellent song (by Jihwan Kim '02 and Rachel Eisenhaure '02) about "wanting a Harvard Man." (I hope no one from Wellesley saw the show.) Orchestra conductor Lembit Beecher '02 provided an even...
...score was a mixed bag, but it gets the point across. Valerie sang an amusing blues piece in which she descended to the pit and flirts with pianist Alex Healy '02 (who wrote the song). The coyly effeminate Pepe (Adam Kline '02) danced a bizarre music-video parody on the subject of black leather. Annie Tigani '02, as one of several dimwitted Wellesley girls, sang a gratuitous but excellent song (by Jihwan Kim '02 and Rachel Eisenhaure '02) about "wanting a Harvard Man." (I hope no one from Wellesley saw the show.) Orchestra conductor Lembit Beecher '02 provided an even...
Exhibit number one: The Leverett '80s Dance. At least half the play list consists of songs that no 21-year-old was old enough to remember hearing on the radio; nonetheless, everyone cheers gleefully with the imagined recognition of the music of their youth. Who was an ABBA fan before the great ABBA revival of the early '90s? Does anyone remember hearing the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun," that great staple of '80s dances, when it was first released? As a cultural institution, the '80s dance plays off of a nostalgia for a past that most of us never...