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...Loeb Mainstage, she has appeared on the Mainstage twice more as Electra in “The Flies” and Woman 1 in “Metamorphoses.” In addition, she played Beatrice in “A View from the Bridge,” Viola in “Twelfth Night,” and Gloria in “You Can Never Tell.” For this impressive body of work, Holding received the 2010 Jonathan Levy Award in Drama, which recognizes the most promising undergraduate actor at the College. Holding will be sharing...
...Unlike a lot of others, I didn’t do theater as a kid,” says Reddout. “My freshman fall, I played viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and rode crew. Then one day my freshman roommate, and co-recipient of the award, Christine [K.L. Bendorf ’10] heard me singing and told me to audition for something...
...almost sultry feel to Sheets’s composition. Written as “a classically inspired piece with a sense of harmony rooted in jazz,” Sheets delegated the roles of the jazz band’s walking bass, tenor saxophone, and trumpet to the cello, viola, and violin, respectively. Tying the piece together was pianist Jennifer Chen ’11, whose performance evoked the mysterious sophistication of a nightclub. Sheets enraptured his musicians and audience alike, with the orchestra coming alive as they played his work...
...veterans and University of Chicago grads, Bernard Sahlins, Paul Sills and Howard Alk. They took the name from the condescending title of a New Yorker article about Chicago by A.J. Liebling, and the idea - an improvisational comedy show - from theater games developed by Sills' mother, actress and theater teacher Viola Spolin. (See the best...
...long, exciting build-ups never seemed to completely cohere. Individual sections and musicians were adept at authentically delivering the folk tunes throughout; a theme in the flutes in the middle of the movement, backed by tight syncopations in the violins, was especially polished, as was a lush viola solo by Elizabeth C. Adams ’10.But as a whole, HRO seemed stiffer than usual. Assistant conductor Hanjay Wang ’11, in his HRO debut, balanced the sound and skillfully led the orchestra through the several tempo changes, but an emphasis on control detracted from the sense...