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...Despite the best efforts of the dancers, especially Kevin Shee ’10, the piece failed to hit home. The light music conveyed none of the majesty the Sun God normally evokes, and although Shee did his best with Balanchine’s choreography and Watts??s staging, his Apollo seemed more like a drunken Zeus after a rough-and-tumble night with Hera. “Lamentation” was the defining piece of the evening. Although the program describes “Lamentation” as a general “dance of sorrows...
...course. Before each class, Watts says that she felt just a bit faint at the prospect of instructing a class of academic all-stars who also happened to be high-level dancers. TEACHING AND DANCING However, instead of the lectures and sections which made up her fall course, Watts?? spring class is hands on and requires more than a little, well, sweat. Every Wednesday evening and Thursday afternoon, some of Harvard’s most advanced ballet students fill the 60 Garden St. studio to take her intensive technique class and learn snippets of classical and contemporary choreography...
...very well attended, Jones says he sees them as an opportunity to introduce new music to the Boston and Cambridge community. Each year since his arrival at Harvard in 2003, he has commissioned a new carol. On Sunday, the University Choir will premier a new setting of hymnwriter Isaac Watts??s “A Cradle Hymn” by Daniel R. Pinkham ’44. “It is a gentle and lilting setting, featuring Pinkham’s signature harmonic language, that builds to a rousing climax,” says Jones. The services...
...Rachel leaves to track down Samara’s natural mother (a laughable cameo by Sissy Spacek), seeking advice on ways to deal with sons possessed by bizarre Japanese video-demons. While the plot tries hard to get back on track, the last half-hour is only notable for Watts??s ultra-sassy heroine moment (“I’m not your fuckin’ mommy!”) and Nakata’s nice handling of some scenes that in less capable hands could have ended up drenched in Hollywood pathos...
Sharon Holt, Pfoho’s outgoing House administrator, departed last month to head a Baptist ministry in Methuen, Mass. According to Dingman, Holt said she received the calling at age 14 and has been considering this move for many years.Kirshner said nobody has been selected yet to take Watts?? place...