Word: pantoum
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...center of learning through the arts.In last Thursday’s concert the audience had a chance to experience firsthand the multicultural themes explored by the Silk Road Ensemble. Ma, Russian violinist Jonathan Gandelsman, and pianist Charlie Albright ’11, performed the second movement, “Pantoum,” of Maurice Ravel’s piano trio. The piece is usually associated with the Western classical tradition but, as Ma explained, Malaysian dance forms heavily influenced Ravel during his attendance of the World’s Exhibition in Paris in 1889.Later, six other undergraduates joined...
...nine featured student poets presented a wide range of influences, styles and subjects. By the end of the evening, the audience had heard forms of poetry ranging from dramatic monologue to pantoum, allusions to artistic works as varied as “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” by John Ashbery ’49, and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” and poems that dealt with animal testing, parental remarriage and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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