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...image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what the hell we were doing here, until I turned a corner and there they were. Stack after stack of Gilbertis: Michele, Giacomo, Francesco, Immacolota…managia! (“damn”), In this tiny graveyard on a hilltop...
...Sunday bells, the campus as a whole can seem far colder. There still remains a population of closeted students at the College, who feel compelled to veil their sexual identities despite living in one of the country’s most liberal zip codes. This existence of this silent population belies the tolerance of the openly gay community, leading many to suggest that while it may be easy to be out at Harvard, it’s not easy to come out.A SEPARATE PIECEThough he is sitting as he speaks in Lowell Dining Hall, Clayton W. Brooks...
...most celebrated producers. Best known for his long, occasionally combative collaboration with Miles Davis--whom Macero likened to a spouse--Macero had unusual latitude to cut and shape Davis' improvisations, often co-creating pieces. Among the albums he oversaw: Davis' Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way and the monumentally influential Kind of Blue, as well as such pop collections as Simon and Garfunkel's sound track for The Graduate and the original Broadway cast recording of A Chorus Line. Macero...
...next time you’re in a public place and see someone dancing wildly with headphones on, look around—if there are 400 other people doing the same thing, you may have just found yourself in the middle of a silent dance party. The Banditos Misteriosos, a group of Boston locals that organizes flash mob events, hosted Boston’s First Silent Dance Experiment in front of Faneuil Hall. The group wrote and recorded a song that directs the listener to perform certain motions—such as “Squat down, pose like...
...heavily influenced modern piano composition and improvisation. Trumpeter Miles Davis recruited him as a sideman in 1963, and Hancock became a core member of what is known as Davis’s “second great quintet.” Through albums like “In A Silent Way” and “Filles de Kilimanjaro” the group fused the abstract, single-chord song forms of free jazz with the electric instruments of funk and rock, creating a sub-genre called “fusion” that held tremendous sway during the 1970s...