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...WHAT DO YOU MOST LIKE LISTENING TO? Susan Graham singing as the Composer from Ariadne and Placido singing Otello--he was the greatest Otello for 30 years. Luciano, too, was so perfect in every way. I think of him as Ella Fitzgerald, and Placido as Sarah Vaughan. Luciano-- classical, crystal, timeless perfection. Placido--more baroque, a little bit twisted, crazy and sexy. For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style...
...event was the second installment of this year’s “Conversations with Kirkland” speaker series, according to Kirkland Scholar in Residence Peter V. Emerson, who organizes the series. Rashad’s appearance was arranged by Susan D. Cooley ’06 and Emily J. Dubner ’06, co-presidents of the “Conversations with Kirkland” group, and was co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Black Students Association, Harvard African Students Association, Association of Black Harvard Women, Immediate Gratification Players, and Kirkland Drama Society...
During the first week of classes every September, hundreds of Harvard students flock to the Fogg Museum in hopes of choosing from the best selection of prints. According to Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, the program offers artwork by young, emerging artists as well as works by famous artists like Joan Miro and Robert Rauschenberg...
Immediately after 9/11--when seeing anything other than evil behind terrorism got Bill Maher and Susan Sontag lambasted--there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
That very year, The Crimson detailed the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst, Britain’s foremost militant suffragette, for a lecture series with other suffragists and Ivy League professors. Three years later, Harvard welcomed Jane Addams of Hull House; in 1918, Congress passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards enfranchisement. While ginger ale, moonlit walks, and secret sleepovers might have been fulfilling enough for the 1905 woman, The Club risked falling victim to its own conceit...