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Bong Ihn Koh ’08 might have picked up the cello at the age of seven and started his international career at the age of 12, but the winner of the 2008 Louis Sudler Prize ultimately does not want to be remembered as a great cellist. Rather than being famous merely for his skill with the strings, Koh dreams that, at the end of his career, he will be known as “an artist who used his talent as a musician to really change things.” Yes, Koh is not your average cello prodigy...
...chance you’ve heard the music of Elizabeth C. Lim ’08. Lim has composed music for groups such as the Brattle Street Chamber Players, the Freshmen Musical, CityStep, and the University Choir. Off campus, the work of this year’s Louis Sudler Prize co-winner can be heard from such illustrious groups as the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Youth Symphony and can be found being performed all across Germany and Japan. Lim has always been a musical prodigy. The San Franciso native began playing...
Madonna, the ultimate cougar, is back with the new LP “Hard Candy”—and this time she’s out for blood. Abandoning the purple onesie and disco ball, she has reinvented herself yet again, this time as M-Dolla: the prize-fighting urban pop queen. If the album cover is any indication, she’s back with a vengeance, determined to keep her competition...
...meeting of the titans of lightweight crew, No. 1 and undefeated Princeton hosted No. 3 Radcliffe for three races on Lake Carnegie in New Jersey for the Class of 1999 Cup. Though the Tigers left with the prize, the Black and White made an impressive showing in this Ivy battle, winning the third varsity four. The morning skies cleared just in time for the varsity eight race to kick off a pleasant day for racing. In the varsity eight race, the Tigers held on to a thin, three-second margin to win over the Black and White, finishing...
...it’s so ad hominum, it’s so black and white.” “The stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times,” he added, referring to controversial, Pulitzer-Prize winning reviewer Michiko Kakutani. Speaking to the success of “The Corrections”—a National Book Award winner that examines how children want to correct the mistakes of their parents’ lives, and how parents live vicariously through their children—Franzen...