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Four weeks, four pairs of hands, and 80 yards of cloth later, 50 costumes for the Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) “Turandot” are finally ready for the main stage.Beginning March 5 and running through the 15th, LHO will perform Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” in honor of the 150th anniversary of the maestro’s birth. The opera, set in legendary Peking, focuses on a suitor named Calaf, who must answer the three riddles of the enchanting but cruel princess Turandot to win her hand...
...Church ceremony a few years ago.For many, the Lowell House masters are just one of a string of signs marking the decline of homophobia at Harvard. According to most members of the queer community, it’s easy to be out in Cambridge, the first American city to perform a legal gay marriage ceremony. Some of the College’s most powerful administrators are gay. The Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) has become one of Harvard’s largest and most recognizable student groups. And every trendy girl seems to be searching...
Classicist John K. Schafer had no idea that being in the right place at the right time—and knowing his Ovid—would lead to an epic meeting with Matt Damon.Harvard’s Classics department is often called upon to perform translations, from salad dressing labels and Vatican documents to military mottoes and movie lines, as the University’s scholars of the ancient world show a surprising impact on our own.In Schafer’s case, a department administrator found him in the graduate student lounge and told him that the dialect coach...
...something new.“The main motivation is to let more people know about it,” Jacoby says.UNLOCKING THE CAGELike the Bow and Arrow Press, the Quincy Cage has come to occupy a special place on campus among students looking for an offbeat place to perform. The Cage has primarily hosted rock bands and pop groups since it opened in the spring of 2002. In its brief history, the Cage has staged performances by a wide range of groups, including a “Star Wars” tribute band and a dual-laptop electronica outfit.Due...
...their hand-eye coordination on plastic guitars. No longer “just a game,” many “Guitar Hero” players take pride in being better than their friends and make many attempts to add their own flair to their “performance.”When I recently did a YouTube search of “Guitar Hero expert,” I was surprised to find approximately 41,000 video results. Flipping through them, they were all pretty much the same: either a group of frat brothers...