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...compositional mastery. Unlike many of Tchaikovsky’s other pieces, the “Fifth Symphony” was greeted with acclaim after its first performance. But the Boston Chamber Music Society’s program, which will be performed later in the evening, will stand in sharp relief from the powerful and sometimes bombastic Russian masters featured by the Philharmonic. The Chamber Music Society will play an arrangement of Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer”—actually a common mistranslation of the German, it is really closer...
...Yeah, I have friends in [Asian-music-oriented a capella group] C-Sharp, and I think they’re great. I really love those songs. If there was one group I would join, that would be it. But, I don’t speak Chinese, so it would be tough...
...it’s hard to deny the verbal dexterity that he brings to his major label releases—and his new release, “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living,” is certainly no exception. Characterized, as ever, by moments of razor-sharp wit amidst a sea of mock-cockney diatribes and a blend of beats and influences that is sometimes too much to take, the new album does find Skinner in a new place, lyrically-speaking: the establishment. Having reached a new level of success after the release of his second album...
...controversy has exposed a sharp split inside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. While some professors outside the economics department have lambasted the University for not taking any action against Shleifer, many economists here have publicly defended their John Bates Medal-winning colleague as a vital intellectual asset...
...kind of getting into that a little more because I'm about to do a horror film, 1408. It's a Stephen King short story. And things like Snakes on a Plane and even Deep Blue Sea, i it's like running from something that's scary with big sharp teeth and doing that thing that we used to do when we watched Frankenstein and Dracula. The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns...