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Lurie, an irreverent Demon editor, and Misono, a Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra violinist, bring an academic rather than political bent to the council race, which they criticize as fraught with overblown promises...
Puppet Macbeth is the reluctant brain-child of Bittner, who rocked the Harvard opera scene in the fall of 1996, when he put together a muppet-puppet version of The Magic Flute replete with singers, an orchestra and Sesame Street-style puppets. After the opera’s run, Bittner received numerous requests to design puppets and masks which kept him busy for the next semester. He later left the world of puppeteering, never intending to return—until a cunning friend planted the seed for a new show last spring. Admitting that he’d always wanted...
...sometimes resented my mother during those years for not being the mom that my friends had—one that helped with homework, or cooked a favorite meal, or came to watch me at football games or orchestra concerts. Other times I just didn’t care, as I went along with life as if she didn’t exist at all. I tried to do what I could to help her as I grew older and started to understand the depths of her health problems, but I recognized that it would never be the relationship I wanted...
...Matmos who stole the show with their dynamic and visually arresting performance, which often felt like a sample orchestra of two. With Daniel micromanaging the elaborate groove architectures and Schmidt “playing” various objects including bells, whistles, a creaky box and a set of plastic balls that he ran through his mouth, the boredom that often accompanies live electronic shows was nowhere to be found. The pair, who are well known for using sounds as diverse as inflating balloons, liposuction surgery and amplified crayfish nerve tissue as musical elements, used the projector screen to lift their...
...composer says he has no plans to retire--"that's God's business," he says softly--or slow down. He has conducted five concerts of his film and other music this year, the last with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in October, and will do a series of such concerts in Australia in February. But don't expect a lot more concerts, he cautions. God forbid they should become a routine...