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This month Coldplay began its first U.S. tour, a step that is often a rite of passage for British bands with big ambitions. Coldplay's U.S. sales figures are nothing to write home about so far, and chances are, the band members are playing venues considerably smaller than the ones they're used to. But the experience may be just what Coldplay needs to develop from British darlings to world-class rockers. The band's charm is undeniable; its hooks are hard to shake. Who says first records by bands smack out of college have to be lyrically complex...
...society has taken alcohol as a rite of passage," Wechsler says. "It's like living next to a fish factory--after a while you don't smell it any more...
...Welcome to what George W. Bush envisions as his rite of passage from back-door president to national leader: the selling...
...years, Harvard University Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly has guided undergraduates through the debut performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his popular core course, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances. This fall, Kelley made a debut of his own when his book, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances, was published by Yale University Press. Prof. Kelley recently sat down with The Crimson to discuss books, music and cybersex...
...been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them as such. Other things are masterpieces because you can just look or listen and say, "This is a masterpiece." The Rite of Spring was hated at its premiere. But it was still a masterpiece then, in absolute terms...