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...perhaps the most simplistic song, but it’s also the most straightforwardly beautiful. The lines are literally punctuated by sighs. Strings swell to the song’s climax, piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise?...
...Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his interviewer Howard E. Gardner ’65 waited to begin their conversation last night on the role of music in the world, the famous cellist took in the room and said, “This is like a wedding.” Ma displayed good humor and genuine affection for both his interviewer and the crowd that gathered to see him in the Radcliffe Gymnasium as he explained his attitudes towards the cello, culture, and the world at large. Gardner, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, introduced...
...Faust said to a crowd of around 100 students and House administrators.“You’re going to be playing beautiful music. You’re going to be making billions of dollars,” Faust told the rising sophomores, referring to former Currier residents Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Bill Gates.—Abby D. Phillip, Clifford M. Marks, and Nathan C. Strauss contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...
...build brand names and a career or to run the New York City Marathon? -Rob Opaleski, ChicagoMy career. I could have stopped the marathon-it was one of the most beautiful things I ever did. There's not a lot of things where a real macho guy will say, "Yo. That was kinda impressive." [Laughs.] It was one of my shining moments, but I'll never do it again...
...good side, and an angrier side, and we just shift them around in more or less excessive ways.”Because these are “real” characters, Miniucchi stressed her belief that the audience should relate to their struggles.“The emotional yo-yo that the audience goes through reflects or should reflect the emotional yo-yo that this relationship puts these characters through,” she said.“You automatically should empathize with anybody that behaves like that. Because again it’s a different way of feeling despair...