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...these professional performances was the companion piece to Psalm 23, Psalm 90, performed in 1988 and now published by Broude. The texts of both psalms deal with the theme of life after death. Elkies chose to write these pieces after being asked to perform the perfect poetry of Psalm 90 to a rather bland early American musical setting, which he found did not do justice to the verse. While Elkies stresses that for him creating music is more like composing poetry than making quantitative discoveries in mathematics, he admits that his type of composing has “a mathematical...
...Maybe we didn’t perform our rituals well enough,” said Marks, who will be calling Dunster home for the next three years...
When I asked what the best part of performing was for him, Kelly laughingly said, “Performing—that’s a big word. I don’t think I really perform.” The Murphys come across as a group of average guys who love music, love the crowd and just plain know how to have a good time. On stage, Casey called himself and the band “a bunch of shmucks” and went on to disparage their singing and musical abilities. It was his way of saying...
Despite this, the audience was given the opportunity to watch a well-executed, traditional ballet that provided a contrast to the modern and jazz pieces in the rest of the show. When dancers perform a Balanchine work, certain standards and requirements must be met in order to ensure that the quality of the original is maintained in every performance. Therefore, it is an honor and a testament to the skill level of the Harvard dancers for the Dance Program to be able to present this piece...
...Bush’s legislation] doesn’t say where these standards should be,” said Daniel Koretz, professor of educational assessment at GSE. “It flies in the face of what we know about how schools perform and set standards...