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...Sisters of Life Formation House in the Bronx, N.Y., 16 young women are making their way through that journey. They include a former Marine, a professional opera singer, a United Nations aide and a recent Yale grad. They have left behind paychecks, apartments, even boyfriends. Sister Thérčse Saglimbeni, 27, a novice who joined the convent in 2005, recalls watching the sisters playing volleyball while she was a student at the nearby State University of New York Maritime College. "I was with my boyfriend and had said how fun the sisters looked," she says. "He said, 'Well...
Ivory Tower made its triumphant return last Thursday night, as students descended upon Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium to watch perhaps the least Harvardy form of entertainment—the soap opera. Harvard’s only soap premiered its fourth season to a gleeful crowd, marked by enthusiastic hugs at the door, wild mwahhing across the auditorium, and a palpable oozing of excitement. Kristina R. Yee ’10, had “been anticipating the premiere all week!”—and came prepared with Tealuxe, Terra chips, and Sour Patch Kids...
...When you take an opera singer out of the opera house and put her in a living room, people get goose bumps," says Townsend, trying to describe the experience. I suppose if you're single, meeting people by eating great food prepared in a bad kitchen probably beats volunteering for charities. But to me, underground restaurants feel a little '90s, infused with that anticorporate, Burning Man, do-it-yourself zine enthusiasm. I'm glad they exist, but the sad truth is, much as I wish it weren't true, I would rather sit antisocially at a stuffy restaurant where...
...film, including the all-important songs. The two eventually got together in a collaboration for the theater history books: Disney, the studio that virtually reinvented the family musical, and Mackintosh, king of the modern megamusical, with a string of hits including Cats, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon...
...astral tone throughout, with Demirjian displaying his abilities on both the low and high registers of his instrument, and Huff playing ambient swaths of sound not typically heard from a pipe organ. The piece segued into a brief arrangement of the overture from the Phantom of the Opera. The familiar themes were a crowd pleaser.The centerpiece of the concert was the arrangement and performance of the Harry Potter theme by Matthew L. Tobey ’07. An ambitious effort, Tobey proved a capable organist, but it was unclear whether his rhythmic hesitations were part of the arrangement...