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...King. At first, the ballad is shocking from a band that normally prides itself on gassed-up guitars and pounding drums, but once the listener gets over the shock, the ballad adds a great original touch to the album. The Foo Fighters softly close the album with the gentle piano melody of “Home,” which finds Grohl lamenting the passage of time...
...bittersweet voice (think a higher-register Stephin Merritt). The effect isn’t unpleasant—but the album works best as background music. Some of the songs feature slightly different elements, like the Celtic drums of “Guyamas Sonora,” or the jazzy piano line throughout “In the Mausoleum.” However, hearing Owen Pallett (who also wrote the album’s string arrangements and records on his own under the moniker of Final Fantasy) sing on “Cliquot” is a lovely surprise, despite...
...concert in Sanders featured a performance by the Kuumba Singers as well as individual acts by alumni. Pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano and composed a song using only the keys that corresponded with the letters in Faust’s full name. Actor John Lithgow ’67 also spoke briefly and introduced a short film called “Lessons in Leadership.” The film sent the audience laughing as snippets...
Three stories above the basement, the sounds of student artists at work ring out. Someone strikes a piano chord and a roomful of Radcliffe Pitches answer its call. In a nearby office, student assistants copy press releases for upcoming events, and on the building’s sixth and uppermost floor, professional director David R. Gammons ’92 offers criticism to the undergraduate cast of “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin?...
...Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 oversaw the play’s music direction. Fairley began work on “Republic of Dreams” a year and half ago, and he has succeeded in blending the actors’ instrumentation and vocals with his own piano performance to create an incredibly natural, intimate sound for the play...