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While a student at Harvard, Hennessy was very involved in the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Club. He played in the orchestra of the Pudding show during each of his four years at the College. He was also a co-writer of the Pudding’s 1989 show “Whiskey Business...
...kind of guy you always wanted to hang out with,” said Cori Fisher McRae ’88, who also played in the Pudding’s orchestra. “He was truly one of the best people I’ve ever known...
...particular, several of his friends remembered how Hennessy would at times bring a blender into the theater pit and during periods of loud music in the show would use it to make mixed drinks for members of the orchestra...
...last year. Composer Mamoru Samuragoch, 37, created a rich, textured symphony that elevates a game with a mundane plot--a samurai must rescue a princess from a bunch of demons--into a story of epic proportions. To record it, Samuragoch browbeat the producers into employing a 200-piece orchestra, including musicians playing such traditional instruments as a Japanese flute and taiko drums. The result is both haunting and inspirational, reminiscent of majestic scores for films like Lawrence of Arabia. "In the 20th century, film became the palette for composers, the way opera was before," Samuragoch says. "Today we have video...
...century [MILESTONES, Aug. 20]. In the item on his death, you stated that "by the late 1930s he was performing in Carnegie Hall." But that was only the beginning. In 1942 Darius Milhaud wrote Suite Anglaise for Adler, and in 1952 Ralph Vaughan Williams composed Romance for Harmonica and Orchestra. Ravel left provisions in his will for Adler to be allowed to play Bolero whenever he liked, without paying royalties. When George Gershwin heard a youthful Adler play Rhapsody in Blue, he said, "The goddam thing sounds as though I wrote it for you." THURSTON MOORE Madison, Tenn...