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...comfortable at college, and she made sure that his comforts came with him,” adds Swett, a former Crimson editor.But even if he was born into old money, Brown had immense modesty, Swett says.Brown, a history and literature concentrator and an active member of the Glee Club, orchestra, and Hasty Pudding Club, amazed his roommates from the start, according to Cunningham.“It was clear from the get-go that Carter was a brilliant student,” says Cunningham, who remained friends with Brown while serving as chairman of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard...
...math competition.Wilson described his time at Harvard as a “stimulating environment.” “The extraordinary members of the faculty I had access to, the fellow undergraduates that I knew, plus opportunities to participate in track and field and in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all contributed to my overall experiences,” he writes in an e-mail. Returning as a Junior Fellow in 1959, Wilson was unsatisfied with the weakness of theoretical physics at Harvard.He received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1961, and joined the physics faculty...
...With a book by director George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira, Of Thee I Sing opened Dec. 26, 1931, with George conducting the orchestra, and ran for 441 performances. It would be the Gershwin's biggest hit, and the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama. The award went to Kaufman, Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for supplying the words; George, who supplied the immortal music, was not eligible. (The decision chafed...
...brisk, canny bounce matched only by ... well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White...
...synchronized choreography while allowing each dancer to maintain their individual character. In turn, the group of enthusiastic and skilled dancers do justice to Jenning’s lively, flamboyant, and overall excellent choreography.Appropriately the other driving force behind “Footloose,” the small but mighty orchestra under the direction of Howard created the rhythm of the show. The vibrating, wistful notes of the violin, played by Nina Han ’09, in “Learning to be Silent” perfectly complements Ethel’s (Caitlin Smythe) and Vi’s (Francesca...