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...navigated a difficult play with aplomb, galvanizing August Strindberg’s work with energy and passion.Running from March 16-24, “Pelican” is the product of an unlikely trio. Director Rowan W. Dorin ’07 and his crew, led by producers Xin Wei Ngiam ’07 and Currun Singh ’07, have collaborated with Swedish translators in the Harvard Scandinavian Club and the Athena Theater Company to merge two of Strindberg’s later plays. They have successfully created a coherent narrative, linking the themes of the abstract...
According to Shira R. Brettman ’06, Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 is a brilliant pianist—the best at Harvard. He is also, she says, “a really belligerent drunk.” A concert pianist who has won high-level competitions and played all over the world, Yuan spent his freshman year studying at Julliard. But a visit to Harvard during the spring of that year made Yuan reconsider his options. “At Julliard I would get up at eight or nine, go practice, eat, have class, practice...
...Wei-Jen Yuan: Name-tag saying “Wei-Jen, Like Asian with...
...international environment. At Shanghai's June Yamada Academy, students pay $900 for a multiweek course during which they dine at a five-star hotel and learn the difference between a fish knife and a butter knife. Meanwhile, at a Shanghai etiquette workshop for HR managers, instructor Liu Wei plucks a man out of the crowd and castigates him for his multihued pink tie. "It's a well-known fact that President Clinton's good taste in ties won him many votes," says...
...evening’s program included an oration by Dean of the Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and a showcase of the virtuoso skill of piano soloist Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, before finally allowing the orchestra to come into their own. Under the direction of Dr. James Yannatos, the HRO passionately performed popular but stylistically diverse orchestra favorites, including Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” and Igor Stravinsky?...