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...band of shirtless male ballet dancers interrupted the second largest class at Harvard yesterday by performing an excerpt from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in what was most likely a final club initiation prank...
...Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly discussed a movement that was playing in Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights," six to eight students ran onstage with slogans such as "Nijinsky Lives" painted on their chests, a reference to Vaslav Nijinsky, the choreographer of the original Rite of Spring...
Warning: The government has recalled nearly 10 million portable mesh playpens. Toddlers can strangle on pacifier strings or loose clothing that catches on the playpens' protruding rivets. Problem brands include Bilt-Rite, Playskool and Kolcraft...
...musical devices. An overly-dramatic orchestra might have felt compelled to dilute parts of the Symphonia Domestica into a pre-Stravinsky and Debussy prototype. Many arpeggios sound very much like those of Debussy. And it is true that some percussion lines sound so much like The Rite of Spring that a timpani-player might have to hold himself back in order to play it as Strauss intended...
...Hurleys' rite began in 1910, when EugeneSr. attended his first Harvard-Yale game. Theelder Hurley went The Game every year until 1968,when doctor's orders kept him at home. But thedoctor might not be able to keep Hurley theYounger from watching The Game...