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...Ballroom dance. The afternoon will showcase eight of Harvard’s most noteworthy a capella groups—as annual staples of Harvard’s Arts First weekend, these groups share an unmatched excitement about contributing to Harvard’s artistic tradition.First to perform is Harvard’s oldest a capella group, the Harvard Krokodiloes. This all-male ensemble performs pieces—ranging from jazz standards to classic rock—from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. According...
Classical music performances will dominate the proceedings this Arts First weekend. The onslaught begins tomorrow, when the Harvard Early Music Society and Currier House will both have afternoon recitals. In particular, the program for the Performance Fair on Saturday, May 6—a three-hour sprawl beginning at 1 p.m. and featuring over a hundred events in and around Harvard Yard—is heavy on classical performances. There are 37 listed classical music performances and dozens of venues; those in attendance will have five or six options every half-hour. For those who miss certain performances, some will...
...upcoming Harvard Sangeet performance is any hint of the types of performances to be highlighted at Arts First, then next week promises to be as diverse and varied as it is interesting and talented. The one-hour show will give the audience a glimpse into a traditional South Indian music called Carnatic. Vocalists Samir V. Rao ’08 and Vasanthi Sridhar ’07 will perform, accompanied on traditional Carnatic instruments by violinist Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06, and mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According...
Stage fright has never been a term in the dance vocabulary of Expressions Dance Company co-director Shana J. Cloud ’06.“Performance has come very easily to me over the years,” she says. In Cloud’s first performance—at the tender age of five—she replaced a soloist sick with chickenpox on the hallowed stage of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. According to Cloud, “After having jumped across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing...
...with his fiscal conservatism, he's also a strong social conservative. He's been criticized by other doctors for questioning the effectiveness of condoms and last year suggesting Terry Schiavo's doctors had not properly diagnosed her condition. He has suggested that if abortion is made illegal, doctors who perform abortions should be given the death penalty and called the notion that global warming is occurring "crap." And for many years, looking to promote abstinence, he has given Capitol Hill staffers a detailed presentation on sexually transmitted diseases that includes many pictures showing how they harm the body...