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...catalog.Sanders Theatre was all about Bernstein at the Gala Concert closing out the weekend’s festival in honor of the composer. The concert, entitled “Celebrating Bernstein,” featured Harvard’s finest musicians and performers, along with national talent, performing his diverse works for a full and enthusiastic audience. On the anniversary of Bernstein’s death, this was a chance to celebrate his brilliance and the legacy he left here at Harvard.The concert opened with a Hebrew prayer, “Y’varech?...
...continued demonstrating the presence of these influences in Bernstein’s own works in the latter half of the performance. It was a fitting retrospective on Bernstein’s early development as a musician as well as a remarkable display of Harvard’s current musical talent. The concert began with two traditional Jewish songs that had a large presence in Bernstein’s youth in Boston. The first song featured Harvard’s Bernstein Festival Singers in the fore, singing Hebrew in unison; they then assembled into a semi-circle around the piano...
...finale performance of “Let’s Get it On.” The play’s book, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, abridges and bastardizes Hornby’s work; the cast, directed by Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent; and the original score by Tom Kitt channels Meatloaf more than Marvin Gaye. Calling “High Fidelity” a disaster would be giving too generous an appellation to the two-and-a-half-hour train wreck that opened in Boston...
Will Chase once played Mark in “Rent,” which he and the creative talent make a poor effort to emulate here: Rob is whiny and angsty and lives in Brooklyn; he might as well have AIDS. Chase’s voice and stage presence is entirely generic, but the writers render him impotent by lobbing off Rob’s most important lines. Never once does Rob utter the underlying philosophy of Hornby’s work: “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because...
...hardwood that his rushing talent was first suspected, when the coach pushed him to try out for the football squad. Ho had never even heard of the sport before entering the eighth grade, but the youngster tried out nonetheless...