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...Harvard Radcliffe Republican Club elected a new slate of officers Wednesday night and voted to remove the "Radcliffe" in its name...
...Jimmie's Chicken Shack got the venue bouncing, dancing and laughing more than the other bands, but this was not achieved without significant prodding. After opening with two unpopular tracks from their new album Bring Your Own Stereo, Haha decided to be honest with the uninspired onlookers: "Look, you have two choices. We can either play the song you know--the one you are probably already sick of--and then leave, or you can stay for a whole concert and act like you are already sick of all of our songs...
...lesser euphony in between. Unlike tours associated with their previous albums Naveed and Clumsy, Maida spent much of the set without a guitar in his hands. Instead, he stumbled around the stage with a placid stare of indifference temporarily disturbed from time to time by unconvincing posture. New keyboardist Jamie Edwards followed Maida's scales precisely on the Moog in a valiant, yet ultimately futile, attempt to hide all of the notes that his frequently sour, straining voice flagrantly missed...
...Although the band's performances of "Starseed" and "Clumsy" were promising, the rest of the set was predictable and disappointing. The usually moving ballad "4am" inspired as many yawns as it did raised lighters, and the new single "One Man Army" lacked the boisterous rock-and-rant that explodes from the studio version. "Undress your soul/Show them your vigor" crooned Maida with a wincing face and artful cadence, but that vigor looked like it was suffering from some shrinkage
...captured his first two Oscars in 1996 in cooperation with Alan Menken for their work on "Pocahontas" (1995). He took away two more on his own this year for "The Prince of Egypt" (1998). He recently released a CD entitled Reluctant Pilgrim, featuring 11 new songs Schwartz composed and sung himself...