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...American Idol” (and lots of others, from Survivor to Project Runway) offer more than just the flexing of our cognitive muscles. They teach us lessons about which kind of narratives are successful—and which aren’t. Successful narratives include the under-the-radar talent (like the girls described above), the obnoxious enfant terrible who eventually softens (Eva on “Top Model” Cycle Three, Christian on this season’s “Project Runway”), and the early star who falls only to rise again (CariDee...
Last Friday, the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra rang in Leap Day with a dazzling showcase of talent that featured their own members, as well as two guests: composer Elizabeth C. Lim ’08 and pianist Charlie Albright ’11. Music director Aram Demirjian ’08 led the orchestra with great poise, but Albright stole the show when he led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”—a notoriously difficult piece—with great polish and professionalism. The evening began with Igor...
...Enchanted.” The sets evoke the feel of an unconventional fairytale. The woodland colors in Penelope’s quarters are evidence of her affinity for nature while the harsh exposed brick of Max’s world shows the tragic desperation of his wasted talent and gambling addiction. The visual representations of characters extend to their wardrobes. Penelope’s playful wardrobe of jumpers, opaque tights, and Mary Jane’s captures a girl on the edge of womanhood. Her blue coat with red piping and mismatched buttons becomes a symbol of unconventionality, as little...
...publicize the stage and end its status as a niche venue.“In the past couple of years it’s been mostly involvement with HCARAR [Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll], and we’re still trying to get a lot of talent from them,” Eisenbarth says. “But we really want to open it up to a lot of different genres. Anyone who wants to use it as a performance space is completely welcome. If that means there are different types of music or if that means...
...spiral towards their disappearance with inevitable momentum as a whimsical voice looks back onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates. In an attempt to retain this fading popularity, she laughs herself to death in front of the narrator’s eyes, “inviting [him] to follow her to the farthest and most questionable regions of laughter, where laughter...