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...once for HRDC (Into the Woods). While I absolutely love opera, I cannot sing at all, so producing was the best way for me to involve myself and be as close as I could to the actual performances without being on stage. I am also a broadcaster for WHRB and have an opera show Sunday nights every other week. I was in wind ensemble for a while too as a clarinetist. This year, I’ve scaled back a little (because it is my senior year, and I am writing a thesis) but I am treasurer...
...shows up at the WHRB studio in Pennypacker basement to “pull,” or choose the records for his show. Chris has already pulled his earlier in the day and they wait, in order, in a crate on the floor of the Record Hospital (RH) lounge. The lounge overflows with surprisingly well-organized CDs and variously-sized vinyls of mostly obscure bands. Jim pulls out a few and shows me the covers, which have little comment notes all over them; each rock DJ adds his/her own little stick-on critiques for the reference of future rock...
...like “sludgy,” “fuzzy” and “aesthetically interesting.” He’s known that he wanted to DJ since before he came to Harvard and, with typical pre-frosh eagerness, emailed the folks at WHRB before he even came to Cambridge...
Chris shows up. When he was a freshman, his already-burgeoning interest in underground music led him to the WHRB studio. Tonight he cracks open a bottle of wine, pouring himself, Jim and me each a glass. They’re both getting giddy and excited for the show...
...tire of WCRB’s predictable warhorses will enjoy the classical department’s policy of never repeating the same piece in a year; rock listeners who dislike today’s nondescript alternative sound can find a real alternative in the underground scene covered by WHRB programming. Harvard football games, news reports, black urban contemporary music, blues, jazz and opera also all abound on WHRB...