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...need to be able to sprint so hard for two minutes,” Pringle says of the athleticism required of their self-choreographed dances. Despite their gigantic smiles while performing, called “facials,” the young women of the CDT are very serious about dance. “You can’t help but be ecstatic,” Laskowska says with a smile.Likely, audience members at this weekend’s “I want to be…MADE” will share in the dancers’ ecstasy...
...concerto for piano and a 40-piece orchestra, which Wang has assembled himself. “Derrick is a flexible musician,” says Mason Professor of Music Carol J. Oja, who teaches Wang’s seminar on Leonard Bernstein. “He has a serious, classical side to his composition, but he also has the more free-spirited, musical theatre side.” Wang will have an opportunity to showcase his many talents at “ Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway,” a conference and festival to be held at Harvard, October...
...last time I threw a serious bullpen session was when I was 12 years old, warming up for my start in the Greenwich Village Little League semifinals against the Cardinals and their feared six-foot slugger, Jonathan Trotman. I threw a complete game and got the win, probably the high point of my athletic career. In those days, I boasted an impressive array of pitches: slow and slower. I was more concerned with location, working the corners of the super-wide strike zone and making sure I didn’t walk the runny-nosed number eight hitter...
...this musing about curveballs got me thinking in quite another, more serious, direction. The curveball is among the host of baseball terms that has been appropriated as metaphor in the common parlance. It connotes a sudden, unexpected turn of events...
Then his tone turns serious. “But that’s not my concern,” he says. “If I was worried about money, I’d have taken the office route. I know that I love music so much and I have a gift for it, and I want to squeeze that out as much as I can and as long as I can until I can’t squeeze anymore...