Word: thud
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...MUSIC | THUD...
...Harvard Undergraduate Drummers, otherwise known as THUD, will perform a wide variety of percussion pieces, employing as instruments everything from cardboard boxes and plastic cups to vibraphones and bongos. Most of the music is original composition by the group members, and by director Julian O. S. Carlo ‘04. This year they will perform a version of their famous Cups piece with an unprecedented 12 performers. 8 p.m. Tickets $3. Lowell Lecture Hall...
This is the first time at Harvard I’ve felt truly invested in a musical group. Freshman and sophomore years I played in and managed THUD, The Harvard University Drummers, but I was never as attached to that group as I feel to HRO. Perhaps this is a function of the fact that, to me, a symphony is inherently more stirring than a percussion quintet. Emotion runs higher and deeper with a group this large and with works of greater scope...
...moneyed establishment in the next round of the playoffs, the moaning establishment is already prepared for a long off-season to stew over their eventual loss. Even post-season perfection cannot cure the Curse of the Bambino, after all, and spite and resignation work wonders to dampen the thud of mediocrity...
...chopped off, the hairdresser told me she’d still keep me looking “feminine.” Before she started with the scissors, my thick hair was down to the middle of my back. I swear I could hear a soft thud as the stylist’s sharp scissors gently sliced off one lock at a time. As I watched the pile of hair on the floor continue to grow, I was seized with a temporary paranoia that mirrors would start to crack when I looked in them...