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Prostitutes, pirates, and persecution may have marauded the stage during the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (which ended its run in Dunster Dining Hall this weekend), but in the end, love and wisdom ruled the day. In a production of lovely postmodern excess reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge , the actors shone, the songs soared, and the audience was left bubbling with enjoyment after watching the story of an extra enamored with a movie star named Cundegonde...
...vice president of Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV), director of HRTV’s soap opera, “Ivory Tower,” and was one of the organizers of HRTV’s Harvardwood program, which links undergraduates with Harvard alumni working in Hollywood...
...founded a small New York City theater company when she learned, on the eve of her 30th birthday in July 2001, that she had terminal colon cancer. Knowing she would never complete a full-length film, Wing decided to use her remaining time and energy to compose an opera--not exactly a step down in ambition. Although her health deteriorated quickly, she never ceased working, composing on a laptop in her hospital bed. "Creating was her love," says her father Bill Wing, "and I think writing music kept her alive longer...
Unfortunately, it didn't keep Jessica alive long enough to see her opera, Lost, performed onstage. Shortly after her death in July 2003, Lost, an adaptation of the children's tale Hansel and Gretel, debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival. The sold-out audience was filled with weeping friends, colleagues and admirers. For family members, the experience was bittersweet. "She desperately wanted to see the opera performed before she died," says Jessica's mother Jennifer Schneider. "One of the most painful things to me is that she missed it by only three weeks." Schneider attended many performances...
...managed to edit a compendium of critical writings about the author J.D. Salinger and another called Sex in America. One of our cherished legends about Henry describes his being told that a writer's cover story was hopelessly inadequate just as he was preparing to leave for the opera. He is said to have dictated a new version on the spot, all the while dressed in his opera cape...