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...student-produced films, ranging from documentaries to animation shorts, in an effort to bring several campus arts groups closer together. Event planner and Crimson Key board member Nicholas A. Noyer ’09 explains why the group decided to try something new. Crimson Key’s usual duties consist of running freshman week events and giving special tours of the college. “Crimson Key is involved in providing a lot of services for the campus, but we realized we have yet to extend our involvement into the arts community,” he says.Several others Crimson...
...another standout. Written by Barlow, the song is arranged masterfully. Acoustic guitar enters first, followed by electric guitar, then tom-toms. Eventually, the bovine lowing of horsehair across violin strings permeates the background behind the high, aspirated singing of J Mascis. Again, this song isn’t the usual for Dinosaur Jr.; their next track starts up hard and heavy, as if they were embarrassed to display their vulnerable side. The album is lyrically simple. Some of the songs, such as “Back To Your Heart,” seem to be about the band itself?...
...were mentioned offhandedly in an article that I read for a class. They popped up in colonial times as a way for women to protect themselves from Indians and other things,” he says. Although the project is in the early stages of conception, it reflects the usual process involved in the creation of Camacho’s works. “I often find little things that vaguely interest me and see where that takes me.” “I do not want to be confined to a particular style yet. I am still...
...traditional. Singers and instrumentalists will convene in the Lowell House courtyard for the first time at 2 p.m. before their May 6 performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” and sound the first notes only one hour later. In place of the usual firing of cannons, the group opts for exploding hydrogen balloons, and kazoos fill in for any missing instruments. Lowell House’s famous Russian bells also figure prominently in the piece. Channing Yu ’93, a Lowell House tutor, will conduct the performance, as he has done...
...radicals. So when the left-wing, anti-U.S. leader ascended a raucous stage in front of a petrochemical plant in eastern Venezuela today - May Day, the leftiest day of the year - and announced his government's takeover of the nation's lucrative heavy oil industry, it sent the usual panic through Washington and the international media. "It's national power!" shouted Chavez, who controls the hemisphere's largest crude reserves. "We can't have socialism if the state doesn't have control over its resources...