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...will demonstrate a 95 percent reduction in embodied energy.” If all goes to schedule, a prototype will be assembled by President’s Day 2008 and an environmentally-friendly production line will be up and running before we begin class next year. This plan may sound ambitions. It should. It’s one of many big promises, none of which is guaranteed to succeed. It would be naïve to expect that alone any of them could reverse the course of global climate change. But if they do become realities, these are the kinds...
...Jones, director of the University Choir, opened the second half of the concert with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata No. 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.” The rich sound of the choir, accompanied by the baroque bass lines of the orchestra, filled Sanders Theatre with the graceful and light mood of the first movement...
...started with a cadenza-like, improvisatory section for unaccompanied piano. Elkies’s dramatic opening begged for more dynamic contrast, but by no fault of his own. For logistical purposes, the top of the grand piano had been removed, which drastically reduced the projection of its sound into the audience. However, this shortcoming did not severely diminish the introduction’s effectiveness—especially since Elkies was very sensitive to the ends of his phrases, often tapering off in delicate pianissimos...
...However, the overall effect of the work was almost mythic. The waves of sound continued to build to the end of “Choral Fantasy” with the full grandeur of the choir’s pure harmonies, the strings’ furious tremolo, and Elkies’s intense scales and arpeggios. The evening as a whole was similarly fantastic...
...soon as possible, and Serbs, who are willing to grant only a greater degree of autonomy, delivered their report on the talks' failure to the U.N. Security Council. The breakdown has raised fears of renewal of violence in the region. But while tensions are indeed rising, there are sound reasons why the worst-case scenarios - including new conflict in the Balkans - probably will not be realized...