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...running for the post: As far back as 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered for the laureateship after Wordsworth's death, but it passed on to Tennyson instead. However, in choosing how to announce her new job Friday morning, Duffy made sure her snubbed predecessors weren't forgotten. The name of the BBC program on which she broke the historic news? Woman's Hour. (Read about America's busiest poet, Kay Ryan...
...online karaoke program and a six dollar keyboard from Ebay,” Paul says. “It was birthed out of Arts First.” Though the girls are set to play as the Rod Stewart Tribute Band, the three Canaday residents have adopted the band name Captain and Captain and Captain and Tennille based on the American pop music duo made famous by chart-toppers like “Muskrat Love” and “Love Will Keep Us Together.” According to the band, “It came...
...storehouses of knowledge have never managed to be unadulterated houses of knowledge. Ulterior motives have always lurked amidst the stacks. France’s Bibliothèque Nationale served to consolidate the rule of the people during the French Revolution, asserting the power of the masses by, in the name of knowledge, seizing all of the private collections of the First and Second Estates. What has been considered the first public library, the library of San Marco, founded by Cosimo de’ Medici in 1444, was created as power publicity, as a means of instituting the Medici?...
Despite her high school involvement in theater, music, and dance, Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08-’09 entered Harvard with intentions of becoming a physicist. Now with a substantial list of acting and directing credits to her name, not to mention the first student show on the Loeb Mainstage in 15 years, it might seem as though Videt—the 2009 recipient of the Luis Sudler Prize in the Arts—has traded her passion for physics for a new one. But this is hardly the case. While...
...folk music with other musical genres, such as Classical. “Classical symphonies in class and Irish reels in pubs are much more related than I thought,” he says. Gurney is a professional accordion player, with several national awards and a busking license to his name, but he first met the instrument in a toy store. “I was seven,” he says. “I tried on a toy accordion and just kept playing it until it broke. I’ve since moved on to bigger and bigger accordions...