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Victoria L. Merriman '98, a visual and environmental studies (VES) concentrator in Dunster House, finds herself in a rare predicament: She has completed her thesis, a video performance entitled "Burial," but may not be able to perform...
...second differential represented a small margin in what amounted to a huge victory for the Crimson crew. While this win will not send them to the top of the Eastern rankings, it vindicated a crew which had yet to perform up to its potential...
...premise behind raising taxes under their "better way" is not that there are necessary functions that the government must perform which require money, but rather that a society made up of self-interested individuals unfairly allocates its resources so all of us stupid folks can't be left to make our own choices in how to allocate our own resources...
...perform and enjoy something like this and then simply walk away from it? Even "facing it" with discussion implies that discussion absolves the performers of any damage done. Yet the alternative is to stop performing the St. John Passion, a piece that is moving even to many whom it offends and is based on a story essential to the faith of millions. The panel discussion unearthed a question too horrible to be answered lightly: What do we do with the foundations of our culture when we no longer approve of them? We can't simply throw them...
...Gould maintained that Bach's St. John Passion was not a gratuitous choice: it is one of only two Passions by Bach, both universally recognized masterpieces. Himself a member of The Boston Cecilia Board of Directors, Gould's argument seemed analogous to the Cecilia's decision to both perform the Passion and to hold the anti-Semitism discussion: Great art should be performed, and when it is controversial, that controversy must be faced. But this seems to be a stop-gap argument. Was The Boston Cecilia primarily motivated by a desire to discuss art and anti-Semitism...