Word: performancy
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...expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that Wintour was even seen to remove her signature sunglasses. Indeed, the band is now penciled in to play a Vogue-sponsored benefit at the Met later this year. And who could blame her for succumbing to the strummings of the stringed septet? Just to say the word ukulele forces...
...last 30 years, Boston has been going Baroque. However, except for a devoted contingent of fans, few Harvard students are aware that Boston features the preeminent early music scene in America, if not the world.The early music genre encompasses European music from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, as performed on historically accurate, or period, instruments. Boston is currently home to numerous internationally-renowned vocal and orchestral early music groups, as well as dozens of smaller, but equally talented, ensembles. “Boston is the birthplace of period instruments and performance,” explains Carole Friedman, the executive director...
...after a seven-run seventh incurred by the Crimson bullpen, teammates raved about the rookie’s command. Cole, dubbed “a lion on the mound” in the preseason by Coach Joe Walsh, had turned in the team’s best performance of the weekend on the season’s first day. “The kid can throw the ball,” Haviland says. “He throws hard, has a great slider...I can’t wait till he gets out there, relaxes, and throws his best stuff...
Despite how easily this non-Celt assumed her place among the flute and pipe players, Harvard students are not lining up in droves to listen or perform these traditional jigs and reels...
...relive the highlights of Kroks history,” according to Thomas. “They’re the best singers singing the best songs that the Kroks have had,” he adds. During the second half of the program, in which the current ensemble will perform, 18 Krok alumni from the 1940s and 1950s will join the group on stage for a rendition of the Kroks’ signature song: “Johnny O’Conner.” The program will conclude with “Loch Lomond,” during which...