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...ambitious. Beginning with a fade-in of the tramp's a cappella singing, it slowly builds and swells, with new instruments constantly added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished, the music slowly drifts away on the wings of this unlikely duet...
...vocal claims of racism by a particular guard concerning unfounded discrimination claims...
...places, Love, Love, and Love recalls Bernhard's performance style, and one almost bears her distinctive vocal intonation--equal parts sarcasm and elegy behind the words. While this proves that Bernhard is sometimes capable of bringing her live energy to the page, it also suggests that her most effective medium is still performance. Love, Love and Love, like the elusive object it's named for, is occasionally enchanting but too often annoying...
More than 1,000 women have been appointed fellows during the 32-year history of the program, including novelist Alice Walker and psychologist Carol Gilligan. The Bunting program offers fellowships in subjects from vocal performance to geology to astrophysics...
Other fellows include: Paula L. Aymer of Tufts University (sociology); Rama Bansil of Boston University (physics); Karol Bennett of The Rivers School of Music (vocal performance); Elizabeth Bussiere of U. Mass. Boston (political science); Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an independent artist (visual arts); Helen Harden Chenut of Mount Holyoke College (history) and Susan Circone of Harvard University (geology...