Word: urbina
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read six of his poems at the Harvard Advocate on Friday, accompanied by New England Conservatory senior Andrew Urbina on alto sax and by NEC professor “Rakalam” Bob Moses on percussion. The sounds of Urbina’s alto sax and Moses’ percussion were interspersed with Pinsky’s poetry. At times, the poet danced a little to the music as he read, and at other times, he remained silent for minutes as Moses and Urbina performed. “It’s all about...
...make no mistake: there’s a lot of technical training and maybe even an aspiring ballerina or two behind this rock star exterior. “Within the dance team, all the girls come from different backgrounds of dance,” co-captain Daniella G. Urbina ’10 says. “The junior class is, like, all lyrical dancers,” she adds, laughing. “The sophomores have a more jazzy background, I would say. And our freshmen are a little bit more trained in ballet, and some of them...
...stories to a fling and likened novel-writing to marriage. “[Short-story writing] feels like the most natural form to me,” she said. “A novel is like spelunking in the dark,” she added. Audience member Luis D. Urbina ’10 said he did not realize that such a substantial culture existed around short-story writing. “It’s surprising and kind of a good thing to see that so much effort is being put into short stories,” he said...
...sorrowing mother from North Baldwin, N.Y., never cared much for debating the wisdom of the war. Nine months after the death of her only son Wilfredo, 29, a specialist killed by a roadside bomb on Nov. 29, 2004, Urbina looks at Sheehan's protest in Crawford through the lens of personal pain, not presidential politics. "It doesn't matter what the government changes," she says. "They can bring everybody home today, but they can't bring her son back." Urbina's Long Island community came together to mourn Wilfredo, a volunteer fire fighter, but his mother says that plaques...