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...knows Morricone, at least by ear. And every Metallica fan: the band has used his theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to open its concerts for decades. On the new CD We All Love Ennio Morricone, his music is covered by artists from Bruce Springsteen to Yo-Yo Ma, Céline Dion to Quincy Jones. The Film Forum, Manhattan's top rep house, is mounting a three-week Morricone tribute. At 78, this preposterously prolific composer (the Internet Movie Database lists 505 film and TV scores) is the music man of the hour...
...stormy, and he was often away for protracted periods, leaving his wife Mamie and the boys, Neil and Danny, who was eight years older, to fend for themselves. Says Simon: "Each time he came back I thought, 'At last, we're together.' But it kept on like a yo-yo." Mamie Simon was resourceful: she worked at Gimbel's department store; she ran poker games in the house and took a cut of each pot. At the hardest times Neil and his mother were taken in by kindly relatives, a situation Simon reversed in Brighton Beach, where...
...managed to be kept alive at Harvard,” she continues.In fact, HRG&SP possesses half of a century of rich tradition and boasts such distinguished alumni as actor John A. Lithgow ’67, who served as the group’s president, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, who played in its orchestra.MAKING WAVESThe centerpiece of the 50th anniversary events is HRG&SP’s production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The fourth collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, “H.M.S...
...Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more beautiful than any drunken reel or inebriated burst of song. The Silk Road Ensemble held an open rehearsal with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), hosted by Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby...
Join Harvard luminaries such as Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 for a no-holds-barred opening shindig at the library-turned-office-building. Snag food from the Penthouse Coffee Bar, enjoy live music, and try to figure out why Yo-Yo Club didn’t get its own private space...