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...great looking: those almond-eyes and alluring lips, memorable curves, that skin. The second factor is a quaint one: in the epoch of manager-produced boy bands and teen stars, CoCo Lee can actually sing. Bill Conti, Rocky composer and the conductor of this year's Academy Award orchestra, says he sensed her star quality at the first rehearsal. "Her presence reminds me of Celine when she first sang at the Oscars. No one really knew who she was, but when she started to sing, people noticed...
...first thing you see is a huge white curtain covered from top to bottom with gibberish: TO KNOW TO KNOW TO LOVE HER SO. FOUR SAINTS PREPARE FOR SAINTS. A drummer fires off a stand-up-and-salute roll. Then the orchestra lurches into an off-center waltz (complete with a wheezing accordion on the oom-pahs), and a chorus starts to sing the words painted on the curtain, which flies open to reveal a dozen dancers in Spanish costumes prancing merrily in front of a backdrop that is an explosion of magenta and yellow. Hold on to your ticket...
...clock off, you're making me nervous!" The latter comment came from the long-winded Roberts, who began "I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here," but even with her whooping and unashamed use of her star power to bully the conductor in the orchestra pit - yet never quite getting around to thanking, oh, Erin Brockovich herself - she didn't quite approach a James Cameron "King of the World" moment...
Gregory A. Dorsainville '02, the station's general manager, is heading up one of WHRB's latest projects to encourage more Harvard students to listen. The station is producing a compilation compact disc of Harvard music--the greatest hits of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Mozart Society Orchestra, a handful of Harvard a cappella groups and the Kuumba singers--that Dorsainville hopes to send to incoming students the summer before their first year at Harvard...
Though complete scores had been written for silent films (as when an orchestra traveled with "Birth of a Nation"), they were usually a pastiche: the "Ride of the Valkryies" for the cavalry charge, "Swan Lake" for the kiss. The early sound era was no different; if anything, early talkie scores were less sophisticated than the full orchestral scores that accompanied some A-level silents...