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...Band collaborator Jeff Friedman of the Thelonious Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
...caught the final performance of "Cantata 2000," this year's Visiting Director's Project which played on the Loeb Mainstage. I wasn't been sure what I was getting into. (Actually, I thought it was a Spanish dance show.) But it turned out to be a musical in the vein of "Rent," interspersed with monologues. I say in the vein of "Rent," because it dealt with similar issues of sexuality, identity and technology on a pop-music soundtrack. But "Cantata 2000" was better than "Rent." By a long shot...
With his colleagues, Dzau, who is the chief of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is attempting to decrease the discouraging 50 percent rate of vein collapse in patients following bypass surgery...
...collapse is frequently due to an aggressive form of arteriosclerosis precipitated by the surgery, which stimulates vein cells to divide...
Dzau's current strategy is to use gene therapy to insert a cell-division inhibitor into the vein cells. This could prevent the veins from overgrowing thereby protecting the patients...