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HARVARD POPS ORCHESTRA. The Pops perform theme music from the silver screen in “Pops Goes to the Movies.” Saturday, March 1 at 8 pm. Tickets $10, $7 for students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...instruments to play to an audience of rapt third graders. “Play an instrument because you like the way it sounds, not because your grandma has a violin in the attic,” he told us, and, since already I loved the wolf’s theme in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” I decided to play the French horn. The convolution of tubing didn’t daunt me, nor did the bus driver’s helpful suggestion that I should have taken up the flute...
...land where most trickles of dissent are quickly dammed, Zimbabwe's two musical legends sing on and sing out like floods. They have different styles - the brash Mapfumo is more head-on political; Mtukudzi, the soft-spoken storyteller, prefers parables. But their songs are variations on a common theme - building a great Zimbabwe. While Mugabe jets around the world, these two musicians rebuke and encourage the people back home. Protest songs may have largely died out in the West after the Vietnam era. But in southern Africa, where music is more than just a soundtrack to people's lives, they...
...Stateside. Says Conor McNicholas, editor of U.K. music mag NME, of Coldplay, "They are so rich in tunes and expression that it crosses borders. A lot about their music isn't very challenging or edgy and it appeals to a lot of people - they're an anti-theme band." Finding the next British rock band to follow in Coldplay's wake isn't so easy, given that U.K. audiences tend to be flocking to see Americans, Scandinavians and Antipodeans. One exception is the Music, an energetic Leeds four-piece that takes its cues from Pink Floyd to the Stone Roses...
...Cusp" (Alternative Comics; 40 pp.; $3.95) debuts the work of the fawn-like 22-year-old Thomas Herpich. The cover even has a deer with its head sticking out of leaf-covered lake. A naturalist theme continues inside with stories involving fish, werewolves, ants and people, all of whom either want to eat each other or mate or both. All of Herpich's stories have a dream-like quality - full of strange narrative logic founded in base instincts and anxieties - yet always funny...