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Think of your typical Italian opera. Now substitute a trance beat for the aria, a blank screen for the Venetian cityscape, a hand-crafted marionette for the buxom donna and art for her paramour...
Executive director Bharat P. Das ’07 pronounced, “We are a well oiled soap opera machine,” opening the meeting of writers and directors for the Harvard soap opera Ivory Towers last Tuesday evening. According to the team of some 50 cast and crew members who work on the soap between classes, everything this semester will be bigger, better, and more professional looking...
...computer screen calls out, “it can only get better from here,” and cites a previous discussion he had with renowned writer Frank McCourt concerning the show as evidence that consciousness of the Ivory Towers show is rising. The purely student run soap opera “pokes fun at Harvard as an institution” and is complete with typical clichéd student characters like, as Pepi says, “the ambitious Upper East side” socialite, “the European girl,” whom Pepi herself plays...
...indicate which fingers to use). He composed his first piece at the age of six and still plays it to this day. In graduate school at Harvard, Professor Elkies was first accompanied by the Harvard Glee Club. He commenced a long-time affiliation with Lowell House when his first opera was played as the Lowell House Opera in 1985. Professor Elkies describes the suggested link between music and mathematics as “fascinating” but he notes that he is “better at either math or music than philosophizing about the relationship between them...
Currently, any student looking to concentrate in the performing arts must go through the special concentrations option. According to the Dean of Special Concentrations office, approximately 13% of the current 40 special concentrators (an estimated three students) are pursuing a degree in dramatic arts. Opera director Peter Sellers ’80 was one special concentrator whose interest in theater took him to professional success...