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...female concentration camp where rape is rampant and death, inevitable. At the camp, she meets several broken Trojan women, including Hecuba, who finds her family growing smaller by the hour, and Andromache, who clings desperately to her only immediate family—her son.The play is based upon Euripedes’ “Trojan Women,” a tragedy that traces the lives of four Trojan women awaiting their fates after the fall of Troy and the deaths of their husbands. “Trojan Women” focuses on war’s inhumanities by depicting personal...
...main performance itself, Sung led the orchestra in the 1945 version of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet written on commission by dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. While the BSO attacked Copland’s syncopated rhythms with crisp precision and settled upon key symphonic harmonies in layers of perfect intonation, the distinctively optimistic, Americana aura of Copland’s work made only a transient appearance. Sung’s conducting failed to coax a spacious tone from the orchestra, and poorly integrated high string-woodwind dialogues dragged the ensemble into musical...
...Doesn’t exist at Harvard, where temperatures jump directly from “Inside the Arctic Circle” to “Inside of Your Mouth.” 3. Prefrosh. For some reason, always does exists during this weekend, when thousands of prospective students descend upon Harvard and mistakenly believe it is this beautiful all the time...
...been the driving force behind Boyle’s recent popularity. It comes as no surprise then that the most willfully nasty among us—cough, cough, “Got Talent” creator Simon Cowell—seem so drawn to the concept of Susan Boyle. Upon any sort of consideration, however, the idea of “a Susan Boyle” reveals itself to be as artificial as Cowell’s malevolent public persona. Though her story is moving, it has certainly been carefully constructed by the show’s producers to allow...
Musser, Phil • unwitting admission by that the guilt of - and deservingness of torture of - Guantanamo prisoners was obvious ("You know, I could tell, I could tell ...") by the mere casting of the naked eyes of upon...