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...dancers converged onstage to produce a very strong interpretation of “Apollo.” Shee’s Apollo sat proudly in a stool while three muses each presented an allegorical representation of their art: Calliope (Elizabeth C. Walker ’11) portrayed epic poetry, Polyhymnia (Kakigi) depicted mime, and Terpsichore (Merritt A. Moore ’10) personified dance. From the three, Apollo chose Terpsichore to accompany him in the subsequent pas de deux...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Standout Solos Make ‘Modern Muses’ Mesmerizing | 12/16/2007 | See Source »

...score into music. On Valentine's Day (and the day before) Guy took up shop with the Harvard Jazz Band, having trekked across the Atlantic as part of the "Learning from Performer's program. He spent four hours over the two days familiarizing us with one of compositions ("Polyhymnia") and more generally with free improvisation...

Author: By Jafi A. Lipson, | Title: Four Hours of White Heat With English Bassist Barry Guy | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...great alembic in which a new President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETERNAL FEMININE | 10/27/1932 | See Source »

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