Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room, transfixed for hours by amputations and appendectomies. Back home, while his father was at the office, he would persuade his mother to help her precocious only child round up stray cats and dump them into a sterile trash can with an ether-soaked sponge so that he could perform exploratory surgery. He brags that he never lost...
This weekend the reggae singer, Danny Zucker, formerly of the local group, Zion Initiation, will perform this weekend at Lowell House at the House Committee's annual Jamaica Party. From Jamaica, himself, Zucker is known in Boston for his talent and for his efforts to aid Jamaicans. Zucker, who has performed in Boston since 1979, has released a number of records, including Take Us Home...
...unprecedented choral effort on this campus, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum will perform the St. Matthew's Passion by J. S. Bach this evening in Sanders Theater...
...piece, which Bach composed in 1732, is generally acknowledged as the most powerful and unique oratorio setting of the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In this monumental work in which two choruses, two orchestras and eight soloists perform for over three hours, Bach alternates between recitative narration by the Evangelist, who represents St. Matthew, turbulent crowd choruses, various commentary in the solo arias and reflective, moving chorales...
...Matthew's Passion is monumental and unique in the history of Western music," Marvin says. "Not only does Bach elaborate on the chorales, which are the center of the work, but the whole performance is a huge undertaking. That's one reason it's rare that undergraduates perform the piece. We've had to raise a great deal of money to arrange for the soloists and the orchestra, not to mention the amount of time and practice that has gone into perfecting...