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...change confused the Tommy Doyle’s staff, but for continuity’s sake let’s just call them Kathleen Turner Overdrive.The viola and acoustics outfit brought a slower, softer, Ingrid Michaelson sound to the stage that was well received, but ultimately too calm to retain attention. Until they nail down their sound, they would do much better in a coffeeshop setting, but for a band that was put together just for this show, they definitely put out something enjoyable.Seasoned vets the Ben Kultgen Band were third in the lineup, and though...
...problems. However, the member states of the European Union are not isolated nations, but part of a larger political cooperation. Both for egotistic reasons and for the long-term well being of the EU, Western European countries must lend their support to Eastern European nations and attempt to retain a unified Europe...
...addition to the obvious problem that layoffs pose for those who lose their jobs, it also impacts those “lucky” enough to have weathered the storm and retain their employment. With upcoming layoffs at Harvard Medical School totaling about 40 percent of the custodial staff, cuts will nearly double the amount of work for already overextended employees. Such overwhelming personnel cuts like those slated for the medical school campus are unacceptable and are disproportionally making custodians feel a harder pinch than the tightening of the belt that all parts of the university are facing...
...members of our campus, whether they are using the classrooms or cleaning them. The strength of Harvard comes not from the rate of its endowment growth, but in the community of people that comprise it. The road ahead will be difficult, but only by collective sacrifice we will retain our community and begin the recovery process together...
...segue into the full piece itself.His explanations, coupled with live examples on the piano, are simple yet informative, easy to digest without sounding like excerpts from “Classical Music for Dummies.” Kapilow is remarkably straightforward with his comments and makes the information easy to retain through funny quips—“Yes, ‘bum’ is the first word of this song”—and activities like creating sixteenth notes by slapping on the thighs. The techniques behind musical phrasing and motifs are brought down...