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...Benigni was in great form last Thursday night, frantically pacing the stage in search of "one thing, just one thing!" that Silvio Berlusconi has done for Italy since becoming Prime Minister in 2001. The Oscar-winning film director and comedian was a guest on RockPolitik, an irreverent mix of song, satire and sermonizing hosted by Italy's most popular entertainer, Adriano Celentano. After sitting down to write a mock letter of apology to Berlusconi, the odd couple racked their brains for something positive to say. Drawing a blank, the scrawny comic then feigned a call to a friend who works...
...Harper were interspersed throughout the musical program, including a memorable rendition of Hughes’s “I Dream a World,” whose theme of insidious racism addressed timely concerns brought to light since Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, juxtaposed against the skillful and creative musical, song, and dance performances by the various student groups, the individually performed, heavily rehearsed, and stylized poetry fell somewhat flat...
...Harvard Krokodiloes offered the crowd the classic Scottish ballad of broken young lovers, “Sally Gardens,” with a solo sung by senior Matthew L. Christian ’06. Providing a contrast in style, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones performed the more lighthearted lustful love song “Breathless” by The Corrs, with a solo by Andrea M. Ellwood ’06. Other a cappella groups performing during the two-hour evening concert included the Fallen Angels and Harvard LowKeys...
...unique literary sensibility to each of the group’s records. Perhaps because of Berman’s strange proclivities, the Silver Jews have never achieved the (comparative) popularity of some of their alt-country contemporaries: Wilco and Ryan Adams especially. Berman savors the absurd, and his songs abound with bizarre characterizations and nonsensical turns of phrase. Berman’s genius is his ability to invest these caricatures with pathos and existential import: the freaks and geeks that populate Berman songs are transformed into emblems of desire and resignation. The band’s new album...
...with “Shine a Light”—at a significantly faster pace than on the album version—they got the room going even as Dan Boeckner, one of two lead singers, appeared ready to give himself whiplash. Then, as soon as the song finished, the technical difficulties began. A minute dragged into five, and no one in the band stepped forward to fill the relative silence with idle chit-chat or weird Canadian jokes. Talk about a momentum killer. The same misfortune seemed to recur after every number, so that the concert felt...