Word: smith
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...enormous success of the cantata series started as a grassroots student endeavor. Craig Smith took over as music director at Emmanuel in 1970, while still a piano student under Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory. The church's choir director became ill and Smith was asked to temporarily fill in. He notes, "I sort of started one week and never stopped." At the beginning of his tenure, Smith decided to incorporate the performance of Bach's cantatas, which he loved passionately, into the liturgy...
Like Wolff, director Smith encourages curious students to attend the Sunday services. "You can really start to get a sense of this wonderful repertory--what I think is the greatest sacred music ever written...
...sour to carry, doesn't show its face here at all. Andrew Burlinson as Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice, projects with a sweet clarity, and Sarah Cullins as Mabel, his romantic counterpart and the General's daughter, banters back with coy and subtle bravura of her own. And if Adam Smith as the Major-General Stanley is outshined a little vocally, he more than compensates with his bizarre--but somehow nonetheless appropriate--Major-General gyrations...
...sets, designed by Peter Miller of Hasty Pudding fame, create an illusion of more depth than the petite Agassiz has to offer and match the performers' intensity with one of color, as do the vivid costumes by Carrie Benes and Sara Smith. Even the lighting plays an active role in the scenes--sometimes overactive, such that the first act, which takes place in less than a day, seems to see more than one sunrise...
...Harvard cut the Arizona lead to 14-6 on a jumper by Feaster with 13:46 to play in the first half, the Wildcats embarked on a 20-4 run over the next eight minutes to open up a 24-point lead, 34-10, forcing Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith to call timeout. The Crimson never got any closer than 19 points after that and trailed 46-19 at intermission...