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Music seems to be his other passion. Kedlaya has played violin in the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra and sung with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and the Glee Club. One of his favorite activities this year was learning Indian film songs for his Hindu class. And he fondly recalls the spring that he sang Elvis songs with a bunch of Hungarians in a karaoke bar in Budapest. Of course, he was in Budapest for a math program...
...handled the score well, but the tunes aren't particularly melodic or singable, so the action seems to drag. While some of the dialogue fits easily into a musical style, at times it comes across as forced or awkwardly phrased. The highlight of the act is "Christmas," a number sung by Conrad, his parents, and his grandparents. Dr. Berger also adds some comic relief: in response to Conrad's question about his nightmare, Berger answers that he doesn't believe in dreams. "Between keeping up with the Freuds and keeping up with the Jones, I end up alone...
Adapted by Seth Weinstein from the book by Judith Guest, "Ordinary People" is not an upbeat story. As a fully sung musical this becomes even more apparent--all the songs follow the same sad format, hardly leaving the audience whistling on its way out. There was a message and some talent on display during the show's two weekends at the Agassiz Theater, but extracting all of it from the monotonously sung dialogue was a challenge...
...That hymns no longer be sung in Memorial Church...
...Having sung the praises of my first year and the Harvard experience, however, with exams looming more ominously than today's black clouds, I'm feeling a certain anxiety to leave the sanctity of the Yard and return to the comforts of Michigan. And I'm not necessarily sure that I am alone in this regard...