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...front, the Pit kids ruled. In the back, the grandparents huddled. And sandwiched between both were the rest of the diverse crowd-swingers and students, artists and bankers, all belting out the lyrics to The Nields' much acclaimed new album Play...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Nields | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Here's where it gets weird. I get an e-mail back telling me to go ahead. So I called AAHLRSA and adopted that big slice of Los Angeles I had been coveting. Bette was very excited. "Have you ever seen the 5? The 5 is such a pit." She advised me to drive on my highway often. "You always visit your mile, and you complain, 'I want more landscaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come Meet My Highway | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Welcome to the other end of Mass Ave. Here, at the crossroads of the South End, Roxbury and Dorchester, and entirely different set of sights and sounds as well as social ills await, a bit more pressing than those found in the pit...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Helping Families Right Down the Street | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Welcome to the other end of Mass Ave. Here, at the crossroads of the South End, Roxbury and Dorchester, an entirely different set of sights and sounds as well as social ills await, a bit more pressing than those found in the pit...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Helping the Families Right Down the Street | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...most significant aspects of BSO'sperformance was the readily apparent emphasis onorchestration. Unlike most stagings of opera,where the orchestra sits in the pit, the membersof BSO were on stage, only slightly below theelevated set. Most definitely this was because ofSymphony Hallãs architecture, which was built toaccommodate orchestral events, but something stillhas to be said for the decision to perform theopera in that setting. The result was of mixedbenefits. Although the BSO sounded the best that Ihad ever heard them, the orchestra tended, attimes, to drown out the vocalists...

Author: By Teri Wang, | Title: THE OPERA: MADAME BUTTERFLY | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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