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...frustration and anger are the strongest. In “Piece Of Me,” Spears laments her overexposure since she broke into the music scene at the age of 17. Instead of asking for sympathy, Spears challenges her critics if they really “want a piece?? of her. Her recent and serious confrontations with the law and the media force listeners to take the message of “Blackout” more seriously. The strongest tracks on the album are “Toy Soldier?...
...Alborada del gracioso,” a brief selection whose title suggests the early morning serenade of a jester. The performance took full advantage of Ravel’s Impressionistic score, leaping into noisy climaxes and slipping suddenly into murky, bass-dominated string arrangements. Spirited castanets set off the piece??s Iberian influences, and a patient bassoon solo broke through the enthusiastic cacophony of metrical shifts and rhythmic switches. The piece dashed hurriedly to its climactic ending, setting a brisk pace for the remainder of the evening...
...Boston Ballet’s presentation of “Giselle,” produced and staged by Maina Gielgud and running through May 20, offers audiences an enchanting evening of classical mid-19th century ballet. As a conservative adaptation that stays true to the piece??s original choreography and tonality, “Giselle” shines as a stellar example of interpreting narrative through dance...
...Although Koh’s excellent cello playing is a hard act to follow, the choreography demonstrates a deep understanding of the relationship between tension and fluidity and allows the dancers to complement, rather than compete with, Koh’s playing. The two dancers of the piece??Koch and Lauren E. Chin ’08–give a convincing performance, expertly using their facial expressions to add to the emotion and energy of their movements.Boston Ballet II, a pre-professional dance program affiliated with the Boston Ballet, closed the Friday show with Susan Shields?...
...years after Harvard President and acknowledged xenophobe A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, decided to make it his business to keep Jews out of Harvard, an article called “Trial By Jewry” appeared in The Harvard Crimson. The article was a short news piece??not an editorial—running just 315 words, half of which were devoted to a racist attack on Jews. “Individually, by their artistic ability and business acumen the Jews play an important part in American life. But, in their race clannishness, they choose to constitute...