Word: orchestra
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...like the one thrown Monday at Moscow's Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed beyond capacity with more than 2,000 revelers - some of whom wept as patriotic poems were read. Famous actresses sang ballads with the backing of a full military orchestra. And towering over the stage was an enormous portrait of the birthday boy in his military regalia, adding an element of the surreal to the entire scene...
Snow. Christmas. Finals. Caffeine abuse. It's that wonderful time of the year, when festive feelings and familiar traditions abound (maybe). The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra feels no less celebratory, but the group decided to put a unique spin on a timeless custom...
...addition, around this time of the season every year, the spirit chair of the orchestra sends out an e-mail written many years ago by a student whose Secret Santa had cruelly neglected to buy him a gift, according to Bloom...
...Bloom ’12, the assistant financial manager for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, entered the bank just after the man left. She was the only customer in the lobby when she entered the bank, and she was depositing a large sum of money at the counter when she noticed the teller who was counting her money drastically slowing down. Bloom said she saw that her teller was distracted by another teller’s facial expression...
Outside of the lab, Bjork also played violin in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for three years and contributed to several campus publications. He also took a year off after his sophomore year to work at a pediatric HIV/AIDS clinic in Gaborone, Bostwana with a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Public Service Fellowship...