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...says Lim; “It’s more of a theatrical vocal piece.” Her opera, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” is based on a series of poems by Keats, and requires only two singers and a string quartet. Wang, a senior in Mather House, says his opera, “Technical Support,” is inspired by frustrations sparked by a broken printer, and articulates those emotions through two vocal quartets and instrumental accompanists. “Have you ever had a technical problem, called the hotline...
...Burqas Off!” party during Ramadan, the entire community would have been up in arms. The Harvard Foundation would have nervously proclaimed a town hall meeting, and the national media would have surely picked the story up.Harvard Christians’ response to this string of events is a sharp contrast to last November, when Harvard’s Muslim community felt under attack at the publication of anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. A town hall meeting had to be called to save face. No such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians...
...populace rabid for college football.And the prospect of a summer of baseball highlights and steroid scandals leaves me uninterested and even perturbed.Baseball isn’t big in Oklahoma. It’s often dwarfed in the papers by high school football or a detailed article about which second-string OU cornerback pulled his hamstring in two-a-days. So the spring, at least for me, is hardly the time for new beginnings. Or at least it was before I came to Harvard last year. Last spring, as Opening Day came and went, as baseball games lasted late into...
...thought about my experience in the spelling bee. As a pre-med, I now know what an embolism is, and how to spell it, but I had rarely thought about how that one word, and the whole experience in general, made a difference in my life until a recent string of unrelated spelling events. I often debate with friends of mine about the value of spelling in today’s modern society. They argue that spell check will always be there to save the day (though the poem above suggests otherwise). I argue that spelling skills are something...
...drawback to this production is that while Senturia certainly had a tremendous hand in preparing and perfecting the all-but-perfect songs, she is unfortunately cursed with a string section that can stay neither in time nor in tune...