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More and more, however, Tharp is attracted to classical pointe work. Three of her dancers, Robert LaFosse, Stacy Caddell and Allison Brown, are from New York City Ballet. On opening night they appeared in Octet, a stringent black- and-white ballet set to an Edgar Meyer score. That was followed by a larky grand pas classique performed by Isabelle Guerin and Patrick Dupond, both visitors from the Paris Opera Ballet. Tharp says, "When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art." Perhaps that...
Harvard's Bach Society, under the direction of Alan Gilbert '89, performs three pieces this weekend, with a special violin concerto by renowned musician Midori. The Bach Society will perform Stravinsky's Octet for Winds, Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto with John Montgomery as soloist, and Paganini's Violin Concerto in D, with Midori as soloist. Tickets...
MOONSTRUCK John Patrick Shanley's witty, shapely script puts an octet of New Yorkers under a lunar-tuney spell one romantic night. Cher shines brightest...
Four other sophomore make up the rest of the octet. Starboards Austin More and Rich Kennelly and four-man Dan Grout return from last year's Eastern champion first freshman boat, and Claude Sirlin jumps up from the second frosh eight...
...Angeles fan took the game with her on a Kenya safari. At President Reagan's ranch near Santa Barbara, visiting journalists play the game when not filing reports. An octet of New York trivia junkies spends every available weekend hour on the game. "We've played through till 4 a.m.," says Ringleader Holly Thorner, "then started again first thing in the morning. We've played at meals and eaten off the game board. When there was a power failure we played by candlelight. There's still wax on the board...