Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shabazz D'Jembe Orchestra, a New York dance troupe that was scheduled to perform after the intermission, had transportation problems and was unable to perform. Instead, Chaponda led an encore of the gumboot dancing...
...Smith?) She sang ballads and love songs and novelty songs, slow songs and fast songs, Weill and Porter and Loewe and Bernstein, in addition to Gershwin and, what she said was her favorite (there's no accounting for such things), Sondheim. She strode on stage in front of the orchestra, futzed humorously with her red shawl, and broke right into "Nice Work If You Can Get It" without an awkward moment. She owned the stage -- a small stage, it's true, but she owned it nonetheless...
...what it was trying to do than in any show I can remember seeing at Harvard; lighting designers Roxanne Lanzot and Alan Symonds created just the right mood for each number, always keeping the star in the forefront. In jazzier numbers, the lights displayed the members of the orchestra (all 15 of them), swinging in their tuxes; during the soupier songs, like Oscar Levant's "Blame It on My Youth" or Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me," the spotlight picked out deLima, glamorous in the darkness...
About the orchestra, as in most student productions, the less said, the better. To its credit, it was obtrusive only in the most difficult songs, like "I Can Cook Too." The arrangements were made by Rodney Lister, who also accompanied in some songs; in both capacities he was successful. Rumor has it that the whole show was put together in only a week, with two rehearsals; if so, the orchestra's performance comes to seem decent, and deLima's positively Olympian -- or, even better, Lenyan...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Principal Flute; Crimson Key Soc.; Response; HARMONY, Harvard-Radcliffe Musical Outreach for Neighborhood Youth; Keylatch...