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...perfect opportunity to practice one's concert etiquette in Symphony Hall came last Friday at the Handel & Haydn Society's concert "Mendelssohn: The Great Romantic." The Handel & Haydn Society prides itself on being the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the country. They practice something called "historically informed performance," which means they use instruments designed in and techniques from the period the music was composed in. For the average audience member, all this means is that the flutes and clarinets are brown, the trumpets are longer, and the piano soloist has the chance to play show-and-tell with...

Author: By Patty Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Handel and Haydn Are Always in Style | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

Only Bear captain Paul Giblin found the back of the net in the first period and Stirling did his part to turn the Crimson's dream into a nightmare. Brown (1-0-0, 1-0-0 ECAC) renewed college hockey's oldest active rivalry with a stunning 4-1 victory at Bright Hockey Center. By late in the third period, Harvard simply was sleepwalking...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Tops UMass 3-1, Breaks Even for Weekend | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

EUREKA! A millennium-old manuscript, below, the oldest copy of a work by Greek mathematician Archimedes, sold last week at auction for $2.2 million. Works from other scientists also did well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 9, 1998 | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

When it was founded in 1858, Glee Club was primarily a social organization that incidentally performed light songs or "glees" to the accompaniment of banjos. Today, the nation's oldest college choral group is far more professional, with a prestigious reputation in choral circles...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glee Club Takes On Stereotypes, Group Dynamics | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...group heads back to their motel for a drunken party and all seems good until Valeck (Thomas Ian Griffith), the oldest and most powerful vampire on Earth, bursts out of the ground looking like an undead Fabio. He has lightning-quick speed, superhuman strength and grins maliciously as bullets rip through his body. He promptly heads over to the motel and coldly and efficiently slaughters the entire team, the only survivors being Crow and his best buddy Montoya (Daniel Baldwin...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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