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BEATS AND BEBOP LOCATION: Lowell Lecture Hall DATE: Nov. 12 PRESENTED BY: The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers and the Sunday Jazz EnsembleAlthough “Beats and Bepop” was nominally a joint presentation by The Sunday Jazz Ensemble (SJE) and The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD), it was, effectively, a night of two concerts with remarkably different musical approaches. Only a final piece by the SJE included collaboration with THUD as percussionists...
SJE’s final piece, “Manteca,” began with an interesting, introduction by THUD. SJE crept into the piece slowly, instrument by instrument, and the performance then rather suddenly crescendoed and swung into an upbeat, rhythmically fast-paced piece. The unexpected upswing thrillingly caught audiences off guard. After this performance was met with wild applause, there was a brief intermission to allow THUD...
...search for a rhythm section was exhausting. “We used Facebook and postered to find musicians and that got us a bass and a keyboard.” The drummer proved more elusive. “We ended up going to a practice for THUD (The Harvard University Drummers) and asking everyone on the way out.” This laborious technique did yield a full band, but most feel there must be an easier way.CARAR’s remedy: band speed-dating. The organization plans to host an event later this year in which all Harvard?...
...main roads into the leafy squares of Bloomsbury, home to the colleges of the University of London. At 9:47 he stopped his bus in Tavistock Square to get directions. Just then, Lou Stein, an American theater producer who has lived in London for 20 years, heard a tremendous thud from his apartment 100 yards away and ran outside. "It was oddly silent," he says, with "a lot of distressed people crying into each other's arms. The top of the bus was lifted off, like the top of a tin can that's just been ripped open. There...
...America, news of the leak fell to earth with a thud. The story’s only immediate coverage was one article in the supposedly liberal New York Times, which downplayed the scandalous document as nothing more than a fly in the ointment for a foreign political party. Is that all this story amounts...