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...scene stealers, with their outrageous slapstick and near-perfect timing, are the twin Dromios (Jeremy Blumenthal and Lukas Oberhuber). They dress and behave like wayward, mischievous children in t-shirts, cut-off jeans, and backwards baseball caps. Oberhuber totes a yo-yo, Blumenthal a Koosh toy, and both add to the goofiness of the two players...

Author: By Yuko Miyazaki, | Title: Comic Confusion Abounds: | 3/16/1990 | See Source »

...best teachers I've ever had," said Yo-Yo Ma '76, an internationally renowned cellist whom Vosgerchian taught. "She finds the very best in students and nurtures that in them. She is a wonderful teacher and friend...

Author: By Grace Fan, | Title: Veteran Teacher Leaves Music Dept. | 2/8/1990 | See Source »

Bolcom cheerfully quotes a colleague as saying that he is the only serious composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where The Old Joins the New | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught dead wearin' these costumes--but creative noneth'less...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

Since September the venture has acquired some new features and a few additions to the "Board of Mavens" (Yiddish for self-appointed experts). The panel now includes cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Boston Celtics' Red Auerbach, the owner of Boston's kosher Milk Street Cafe, and Sheldon Cohen of Out of Town News...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Kosher Deli on Hold, Say Mavens | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

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