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...Beethoven in flashbacks - as the professor races to finish her research before the disease incapacitates her, while also trying to connect with the grown daughter from whom she has always been distant. Fonda gives a graceful if unexciting performance, and the Beethoven music (performed by an onstage pianist) is nice, but the play hits nothing but familiar chords. (Read "Is West Side Story Overrated...
...story is secondary to evoking emotion and provoking an audience reaction.The play opens in the dining area of a boardinghouse in a coastal area of England, and immediately launches the audience into the dull lives of Petey and Meg, its proprietors. The entrance of Stanley, an irritable, washed-up pianist and the couple’s only client, adds to the monotony that typifies the characters of the play. However, the ominous arrival of two men dressed in dark suits—Goldberg and McCann—disrupts the established tedium. They inspire Meg to throw a birthday party...
...more accurate description, if you really wanted to get pompous, is that we do music of novelty.” The band, which incorporates various techniques and multiple genres into its musical selection, transcends the classification of being simply a jazz group. Comprised of King, bassist Reid Anderson, and pianist Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus will be performing at the Berklee Performance Center this evening as a part of a national tour promoting their most recent album, “For All I Care.”The group exudes an energy that truly attests to the trio?...
...Birthday Party” will be on show in the Loeb Expository Theatre from April 3-11. “The Birthday Party” premiered in 1958 and is Pinter’s most critically acclaimed play. The story revolves around the terrorization of Stanley Webber, a failed pianist who lives in a rundown boarding house owned by Meg and Petey Boles, to all appearances a bland couple. The trio seem at first to get along splendidly, displaying a mix of familial and flirtatious affection. But these early moments are merely a foil to those that follow the arrival...
...have mastered all of them,” O’Connor says. The club hopes to continue providing Harvard students the opportunity to work closely with musicians dedicated to pushing the boundaries of American music with possible future guests such as bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss, jazz pianist Chick Corea, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and electric bass player Victor Wooten. “All of these artists have had an impact on Harvard’s music community by expanding the boundaries of what constitutes American classical music,” says Thomas Lee, program manager of Learning from...