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...bold new ideas. An article in The New York Times on Jan. 8 noted that the General Education report contained concepts already produced by curricular reviews at Yale and other peer institutions, and said that the report “landed on many desks not so much with a thud as a rustle...
...itself. In one scene, Red falls out of a chairlift and hits a few thin, leafy tree branches on her way down. But instead of bending to her body weight like normal branches, these remain immobile as Red connects with and bounces off of each one with a loud thud. In the same fashion, the Weinstein brothers have found a normally yielding genre to be a lot harder than they had expected, with equally painful results...
Unlike SJE, THUD is a student-directed musical troupe by led by co-directors Danielle R. Lehle ’07 and Sonali Palchaudhuri ’07. Palchaudhuri initiated the THUD performance in the same way, she said, that all THUD performances begin—by having the audience perform. Dividing up and assigning each audience section an instrument, Palchaudhuri led each one in playing various rhythms before having the whole audience synthesize their performances. With the audience’s rhythms in the background, the THUD performers filed onto stage, completing the interactive musical piece with their...
...concert certainly displayed a remarkable level of talents among Harvard students, but their differing talents styles should have been showcased in two separate concerts. Other than “Manteca,” there seemed to be no connection between THUD and SJE. It became almost overwhelming to sit through both concerts with their contrasting complexities...
Indeed, after the upbeat jazz of SJE, it seemed almost unfair that THUD served as dessert, since the musical appreciation required for the less mainstream THUD is so different...