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...graph of the Harvard School of Education's well-being over the past two years would rise and fall like a yo-yo...
...faces are standard currency on MTV, where these spots appear. And the beat is right. But what gives with all the flag waving? Well, yo, young America. These unconventional calls to patriotic duty are part of a broadly orchestrated campaign by celebrities, cable channels and record companies to get youths involved in the electoral process. "The idea," says Jody Uttal, co-founder of the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, which produced the Ice-T and Madonna videos, "is to raise the political consciousness of kids and to make voting...
...CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike...
According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...
World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 received the medal last year and became an honorary associate...