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...still seems unlimited to them. But difficulties particular to Harvard’s Common Casting system start to clutter the way. The system is particularly tricky for Hanley because “Chicago” is a musical, and so he has to audition people for three different skills: singing, acting, and dancing. There are so many small parts to cram into a single audition space and a few minutes of audition time, that it’s hard to coordinate everything. “It was a hectic week for everybody,” Hanley says...
...distorted, angular guitar riff; in a decidedly non-Western move, melody seems to support rhythm, rather than the other way around. Some of the tracks downplay the innovation of electric/acoustic fusion in favor of emphasizing the blended cultural milieu of the music and Kinshasa. Masanka Sankayi sing one of their songs in French. Bolia We Ndenge introduce an accordion into their music and shout that it “comes from Belgium,” the country’s old colonial master. But the sound of the colonists’ instrument hardly seems imposed; it fits flawlessly into...
...Both soloists are prominent members of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. Aaron L. Berkowitz, a Ph.D. candidate in Music, who has played for such illustrious musicians as Misha Dichter and Joseph Kalichstein, will perform Piano Concerto No. 23, KV488: Adagio. Amanda Forsythe, soprano, will sing “Misera, dove son!,” KV369 with her silvery tone. Forsythe, who recently made her recital debut in New York, is a winner of the George London Foundation Awards and the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation Award, among others. Finally, actor Jess R. Burkle...
Some, like Henry James, find it easier to speak fluently in a non-native tongue, and others, when they sing, are as clear as birds...
WHAT WITHERSPOON IS SAYING: As a teenager at a drama camp, she was told by a teacher that she might someday be a good actress but that she should never, ever try to sing in public. She has said that overcoming that "embedded" fear "was a really big accomplishment for me." And it is one that audiences somehow sense and share...