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...later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer, or the like, my grandmother would glide onto the stage—SNL style—perform a short monologue and encourage her audience: “Add a little fun in your life: try dancing.” I have a sneaking suspicion she wouldn’t approve of her descendents giving up the classics to “drop it like it?...
Friday, Dec. 9thMariachi Veritas. The Harvard mariachi ensemble performs traditional Mexican music to celebrate the winter season. Fong Auditorium. 7 p.m. $6. (CNC)Kroks and Callbacks. The Krokidiloes and Callbacks join together to present “Underneath the Mistletoe.” Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. $10 general admission, $6 students. (CNC)Ying Quartet. Part of the Houghton Chamber Library Music Series, this event will feature the Blodgett Artists in Residence performing a program of Beethoven, Michael Torke, and Dvorák. Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library. 8 p.m. $20 general admission, $10 students. (CNC)Sand Machine. Boston...
...addition, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, the Krokodiloes, join co-ed a capella singers the Callbacks to perform their annual winter concert. Seasonal merriment is sure to ensue...
...youth is not a dancer at all, but the new Harvard Dance Center, which this week’s Inaugural Gala Concert will celebrate. So far, the center has received praise from dancers and non-dancers alike, both for its innovative architecture and the additional space it provides to performers.“The studio is beautiful. It’s definitely a testament to the school being dedicated to the arts,” says Larissa D. Koch ’08, who will dance in multiple pieces at the concert.The centerpiece of the seven-segment concert will...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and The Memorial Church’s Pusey Minister, had read to you before bed in his booming, mesmerizing oratory style. This possibility can be experienced on Saturday, Dec. 10, as Gomes narrates the Bach Society Orchestra’s (BachSoc) performance of Prokofiev’s classic composition “Peter and the Wolf.” In addition, BachSoc will perform Bartok’s “Romanian Folk Dances,” Shubert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” and an original...