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...orchestra settled in by the third movement. Schumann wrote the symphony during a dark period in his life, and Demirjian again proved his mettle by fluidly emphasizing the inherent sadness of the piece. The rich tone of the flute passages by Jonathan G. Sherman ’07 especially stood out.Yet the final movement’s resolution, stirring as it was, felt somehow anticlimactic after Bartosik’s earlier performance, prompting a nearby audience member to ask, “Is that it?”Traveling effortlessly through her technically demanding concerto, Bartosik had clearly internalized...
Beautifully choreographed by Val Caniparoli and set to the music of Bartók, “Sonata” stood out for its vivacity. Divided by two marches, the dancers began with moments of swelling creativity, traditional ballet positions were redefined with sharp, angled arm movements...
...Stockholm praise the Swedes' welcome, they struggle to persuade locals to hire them for professional jobs. "We have a lot of highly educated people driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg late one evening. Six taxis were parked along the snowbound sidewalk while the drivers celebrated the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura inside. "The Swedes don't want to hire us" for skilled work, al-Suheil says...
...lived. As presidential candidates, Jefferson was hammered for his lack of religion and Jackson was hammered for his wife's surplus of husbands--yet both men were elected twice. Partisanship and ideology made a space for singularity. Jefferson's and Jackson's supporters cared more about what their champions stood for than what they thought about theology or the divorce laws...
...then 39-year-old Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ’38 stood in front of the 300 students who had packed themselves into a small Harvard lecture hall to attend the first lecture of “History 169,” Schlesinger’s popular course on American intellectual history...