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...colorful and brilliant multiple concerti for several instruments. One of America’s only undergraduate baroque orchestras, the HBCO brings these vivid works to life again, featuring Jon A. Daniels ’03, recorder, Na’ama Lion, baroque flute, Justin Haynes ‘03, viola da gamba, Brian K. Lee ’03, baroque violin and Seth Ament ’03, baroque cello. Directed by Robert Mealy ‘85. Tickets are $10, $5 for students. Saturday, March 15 at 8 p.m. Busch Hall...
...laughs. Spence’s shaky math skills, something that she attributes in large part to the limited curriculum of her high schools, meant that she spent most of her first year catching up. Frustrated with academics, Spence threw herself into her extracurricular activities—rowing, playing viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and writing a column in an English newspaper contrasting college life in Britain and the U.S. Spence says one of her favorite aspects of Harvard is the focus on extracurriculars, a major difference from British universities where college is simply a stepping stone towards employment...
BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY. The musical group will perform Debussy’s Sonata No. 3 for flute, viola, and harp; Zwilich’s Passages (1981); and Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major. Sunday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25-$42, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Student rush $5, begins at 6:30 on the day of concert. Sanders Theater...
...moment, she's back home in London, appearing in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "After Red Dragon, the biggest, most Hollywood-est movie I've ever been in, this opportunity came up," she says. "To be able to play Viola and Sonya in the same breath--it's good." Best of all, she doesn't have to share a dressing room with a cannibal. --By Jess Cagle
...still at the top of his game. In this, the eighth of his 20th century cycle, the residents of a ghetto neighborhood in Pittsburgh struggle against the social and economic realities of the Reagan '80s. A great cast, including Brian Stokes Mitchell, right, and Tony Award-winner Viola Davis, luxuriated in Wilson's impassioned language...