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...appropriately-titled “The Facebook Song,” written by two undergraduate music students—Tommy Hewitt Jones and Pete Foggitt—has taken the online community by storm, leaving in its wake polemical new groups on facebook.com, a renaissance for the synthesized orchestra hit, and increasingly vocal recognition for its composers ever since its web-launch in early February. According to Edward Bainton, a close friend of Jones and Foggitt who both produced and mastered the song, the concept occured to the duo as they sat in a Cambridge bar, discussing the obscene amounts...
...steadfastly resists categorization. Not only did Green, a classically trained pianist, begin his directing career supervising a high school production of “Honk!” he has also been involved with organizations as diverse as the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Pops Orchestra, and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). Green’s eclectic tastes have even come to dictate his daily routine over the past few months. He has spent his daytime working on the score for this year’s HPT show, “Some Like it Yacht,” even...
...While at times, the orchestra, conducted by Ben E. Green ’06, did not carry the dramatic weight of the acting and singing because of a vulnerable and sometimes thin sound, for the most part they did not fail to stir the audience and support the singers. It seemed as if the music could fall apart at any minute, but such frailty is Poulenc’s intention...
Whether it was the sensitivity of the orchestra, the skill of the performer, or both, every time Gerlach sang, she and the orchestra came off as one aggregate instrument of pain and fear...
...Saturday, Feb. 11thA Concert of Experimental Music. Presented by Harvard Group for New Music. Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Free.Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $40/$32/$28.Apollo’s Fire - The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden St. 8 p.m. Tickets available from the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition, (617) 661-1812. $21-$53; $5 discount for students, senior citizens, and large groups.Feist with Jason Collett. Presented by WXRV. Paradise Rock Club. 8 p.m. Tickets available via Ticketmaster and at the Paradise...