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...exception. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Collegium Musicum joined forces to offer a beautiful and often brilliant, if surprisingly short, Christmas concert dedicated to music from the British Isles. The three groups performed separately first, followed by a joint Glee Club/RCS performance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and concluding with all three groups singing Vaughan Williams' "God Bless the Master." Between each section, conductors Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis invited the audience to stand and sing Christmas carols with the choirs. It was difficult for those in the audience to refrain from applauding...
...Jones had hit the big time, as he was arranging and recording for diverse artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and Duke Ellington...
...having urgent sex in an airport garage. The doctor tells of her other sexcapades in cars: "They felt like traffic accidents." She loves making love to men with scars; to her, each wound is an orifice, and auto eroticism is an aphrodisiac. It is more--a sacrament--to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), whose obsession with celebrity crashes has made him a priest of the car cult. He seeks immortality in heavy-metal scrapes with death...
...total effect commanded attention as well. Under assistant conductor Channing Yu '93, the piece in its lusher moments evoked the fine string writing of Vaughan Williams. Yu has a knack for the Spanish dance idiom--one hopes that he will conduct Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" in the near future. The members of the orchestra were more than up to the task of the furious coda, never letting its fast tempo mar their phrasing...
...CASSANDRA WILSON NEW MOON DAUGHTER (Blue Note). With her knowing, nocturnal voice, Wilson is the queen of contemporary jazz vocalists and the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Here she branches out, with remakes of songs by the likes of U2, Hank Williams, even the Monkees. She graces all of them--covers as well as spellbinding originals--with a classy Afrocentricity that shatters boundaries even as it breaks your heart...