Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that sunken whitewashed place across from the Coop, below the map store. Tom Waits got his start there. In its heyday Club Passim (then Club 47) was a familiar nightspot for Harvard students: "It was the House of Blues without the booze," says co-founder Betsy Siggins Schmidt. Over the years though, student nightlife has fragmented as venues multiplied, and the Club's Americana format has become less immediate than it was when folk musicians were creating a vocal canon of protest in the days of Vietnam and the civil rights movement...
...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
...Siggins Schmidt described the anniversary concert as the ultimate introduction to folk music any Harvard undergraduate could hope for. Pamela Means began the show with a short set of soft-spoken, dark songs. Her hair, a square mass of dreads, sat on top of her head like an underground crown. After her, with far less hair, the Charles River Valley boys played a set that sounded more like the Ohio River Valley than the Charles, closing with a few Beatles covers that underlined the concert's sense of retrospective solidarity...
...electees are: Sarah E. Clark-Schmidt,Goldstein and Cheryl A. Gray of Adams House;Mulaika Hijjas and Sudhir R. Vora of Cabot House;Gina Petrocelli, Joshua B. Plotkin, Esther T.Riggin and Himani C. Shah of Currier House; DelmaY. Jarrett, Joel B. Pollak and Shirling Tsai ofDunster House; Brian T. Garibaldi, Shalom E. Holtzand Kensaku Kawamoto of Eliot House; Ariel S. Freyand Ilana Kurshan of Kirkland House; Jessica E.Kahan, Gregorios Kranias, Scott B. Lovitch,Sharmil S. Modi and Geoffrey C. Upton of LeverettHouse; Elisa K. Cheng, Ka-Hyeong Lee, Suzanne M.Miller and Markella V. Zanni of Lowell House; MaryM. Berlik, Irene...
...translation of the script is one of the greatest feats of this Americanized performance. Paul Schmidt converted Racine's French Alexandrine couplets into the American vernacular, avoiding awkward idioms and unnatural word sequences so that the targeted audience is virtually unaware of the play's original language. Although not as eloquent and lyrical as typical 17th century verse, the clear and unbroken dialogue provides for effortless comprehension on the part of an American audience. As for individual performances, each cast member skillfully plays out his or her part in Phaedra's psychological battlefield: Randy Danson, in the title role, effectively...