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...Attorney General John Yoo, author of the so-called torture memos for President George W. Bush. The settlement counts The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan and noir crime novelist Elmore Leonard among its supporters. The deal has many other supporters as well, from disability rights groups to Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the National Grange...
...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Dr. Seuss traversed the centuries that separate them to collaborate on a piece, it would be “Green Eggs and Hamadeus.” Just as the combinatory title suggests, Rob Kapilow’s “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” merges performance and audience, tradition and innovation, and—of course—Mozart and Dr. Seuss. As a presentation of the “Celebrity Series of Boston,” an organization founded to further the performing arts in Boston, this original work comes to Boston University?...
...National Public Radio veteran and former Yale music professor has dedicated his career to attuning the untrained ear to the pleasures of classical music. He recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to discuss his efforts to make classical music accessible to all. His upcoming performance of the Dr. Seuss adaptation “Green Eggs and Hamadeus,” a children’s musical, takes place February 28 at the Tsai Auditorium.The Harvard Crimson: Many people complain that they feel distanced from classical music, yet music is a powerful communicator. What do you think is lost...
...Aurélia’s Oratorio,” the figure also carries a hat and purse on her elevated feet. There is a strong sense of wonder to the production, but it maintains a dark undercurrent that makes it more the stuff of Edward Gorey than Dr. Seuss. And so “Aurélia’s Oratorio” manages to stay pitch-perfect, with a few exceptions. In one of the weaker moments, a disco ball appears onstage, and the generally unobtrusive score switches to an accordion-inflected circus song with fairly raunchy lyrics...
...dominant gene and in general that's why there are so many of them," says singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris. Active in the animal rescue movement, Harris adopted a big black dog, Bonaparte, years ago. "He was a goofy, poodle-looking dog," she says. "He looked like something Dr. Seuss would have designed." Bonaparte was her "road dog," traveling with her on tour and when he died she went into deep grief. In his honor, she built Bonaparte's Retreat, a rescue and foster operation in her backyard, designed with input from Friedman, and she embarked on a campaign to support...