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...play in the same city where she has a gig...So she said, ‘Why can’t we get on an eight person bike and speed away?’” Under instruction from the Lampoon, Spektor declined to comment on the evening??s events. “I can’t have any comments for The Crimson,” she said. “They made me swear...
...Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. Faust said that Morrison asked if she could also read during the inauguration festivities. “And I said, ‘Are you kidding?’” Faust exclaimed. The evening??s concert in Sanders featured a performance by the Kuumba Singers as well as individual acts by alumni. Pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano...
Members of Harvard’s Latino groups danced together, reflecting the evening??s goal of further unifying the College’s Latino population, a community that has been described as divided along national lines...
...evening??s plucky all-Ravel program featured four works by the 20th-century French composer. It got off to an energetic start with “Alborada del gracioso,” a brief selection whose title suggests the early morning serenade of a jester. The performance took full advantage of Ravel’s Impressionistic score, leaping into noisy climaxes and slipping suddenly into murky, bass-dominated string arrangements. Spirited castanets set off the piece’s Iberian influences, and a patient bassoon solo broke through the enthusiastic cacophony of metrical shifts and rhythmic switches...
...evening??s last piece was Suite No. 2 from Ravel’s longest work, the ballet “Daphnis et Chloé.” The musicians took liberties with tempo and dynamics that would likely have been impossible if dancers had had to keep up, but for the BSO, the piece was a fitting rollercoaster ride of an ending. The balance between the sections of the orchestra was precise in this piece, and the ensemble succeeded in producing a full and lively sound that evoked visions of the ballet’s pastoral, frolicking nymphs...