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...began with “I Can Cook Too” from “On the Town.” Adelman lost her microphone in the midst of a frenetic dance routine in the middle of the number, so the audience could hardly hear her closing vocal lines. Evan D. Siegel ’07 restored quality to the show with “A Quiet Girl” from “Wonderful Town.”A quintet then sang “The Best of All Possible Worlds” from the musical adaptation...
...Bernstein performed it socially—instead elicited cheers throughout the audience. The concert then featured three selections from musicals Bernstein produced during his adolescence, all ably accompanied on the piano by Derrick L. Wang ’06. Matthew V. Anderson ‘03 gave a great vocal performance on “A Wandr’ing Minstrel I” from Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Anderson later returned with Catherine L. Vaughan ‘08 for Gershwin’s “Of Thee...
Beck’s tenor sounds much better on the album’s more mellow cuts, such as “Movie Theme,” a solid combination of synthesized strings and soft-spoken vocal lines reminiscent of “Sea Change.” Other highlights include “Nausea,” built on a raw acoustic guitar and bass riff, with Beck doing his best Brit-pop vocal imitation. “Strange Apparition” is loveable piano-driven ’90s pop with a nice half-time breakdown...
...Black’s finale performance of “Let’s Get it On.” The play’s book, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, abridges and bastardizes Hornby’s work; the cast, directed by Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent; and the original score by Tom Kitt channels Meatloaf more than Marvin Gaye. Calling “High Fidelity” a disaster would be giving too generous an appellation to the two-and-a-half-hour train wreck that opened in Boston...
...majority of Americans has believed for months now that the war in Iraq was a mistake. Unless I miss my guess, a smaller, more vocal percentage believes it was much worse than a mistake - it was a huge strategic blunder that will take months if not years to unwind, that diverted the military's attention from finding Osama and stabilizing Afghanistan, that cost thousands of lives and eventually half a trillion dollars. Rather than creating an island of stability and freedom in the Middle East, the U.S. so far seems to have created islands of a different kind...