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...Human Rights Documentation Center, an NGO in New Delhi. Butler may be an academic force with a dedication to his thesis, but in typical Rhodes fashion, he is no bookworm. He has sung with the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College almost continuously since his freshman fall. He also played violin with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and volunteers regularly at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Butler was named a Harvard College Scholar for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. He plans to study Jurisprudence at Exeter College at Oxford. “I knew I wanted to study law in England...
...their own teachers and resources in the Boston area and make use of their summers to attend festivals in order to stay at a competitive level during their four years in Cambridge.Anderegg’s sister, Francesca J. Anderegg ’04-05, who is now studying violin at Juilliard, agrees: “I think there is a lot to offer at Harvard, musically, although sometimes you have to work a little harder to create the experience that you want.”The landscape has not been completely devoid of resources. The Office For the Arts...
...most surprising success, as Beam replaced the driving folk guitar of the recorded version with—are those palm-muted power chords? Beam made the unlikely arrangement work somehow, playing the song at a moderate tempo with moody accompaniment from softly driving toms, a violin, and a pedal steel guitar.Beam’s attempts to reinvigorate his work were valuable experiments even when they fell flat. A full-band, electric version “Jezebel,” one of Beam’s strongest songs, failed to improve on the original. Instead, the quickened tempo and staccato...
...Wolff commuted from England to Germany to serve as Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. The classical music tradition is imprinted so deeply in European culture that, as Wolff wryly puts it, “If you’re walking down the street [in Europe] holding a violin case, no one is tempted to ask you what your day job is.” This past August marked Wolff’s return to the U.S. True to form, much of his upcoming year will be spent traveling and guest conducting for orchestras across Europe. Yet Wolff looks...
From its start, “Kalpanam” lived up to its “classical imaginations” subheading. Ravi Shankar’s sitar—a Hindustani traditional violin-like instrument—strummed in the background and combined beautifully with a fantastic red light splashed onto the stage, where Brandeis University students performed the opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates...