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...more highbrow Sunday afternoon cultural event, T down to Faneuil Hall (Government Center) at 3 p.m. to see the Boston Classical Orchestra, Program V. A collection of "Classic Firsts" by Mozart, Prokofiev and Beethoven, the concert will be conducted by Harry Ellis Dickson. Call the Boston Classical Orchestra ticket box at 423-3883 for details. Tickets range from $18-$35, but take advantage of a $5 student discount...
...medley of West Side Story tunes composed the second number of the evening. "Pas de Quartre" was a hard act to follow, and the dancers of "West Side Story" seemed a little awkward and over-dramatic in their attempts to match the beautiful first number. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, accompanying the dancers throughout the first act of the program under the musical direction of Allen Feinstein, seemed under-rehearsed and ill-prepared for Bernstein's score, leaving the dancers to cover the distracting and annoying amounts of musical blunders in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the overdramatic choreography didn't do much...
Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...
...medley of West Side Story tunes composed the second number of the evening. "Pas de Quartre" was a hard act to follow, and the dancers of "West Side Story" seemed a little awkward and over-dramatic in their attempts to match the beautiful first number. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, accompanying the dancers throughout the first act of the program under the musical direction of Allen Feinstein, seemed under-rehearsed and ill-prepared for Bernstein's score, leaving the dancers to cover the distracting and annoying amounts of musical blunders in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the overdramatic choreography didn't do much...
...Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...