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When choreographer Mark Morris rehearses in his studio, he looks like he is conducting an orchestra. Walking across the wooden floor with a brown shawl wrapped around his shoulders and New Balance sneakers on his feet, Morris points first to the piano, then to the dancers. A musical scale falls, then one of the dancers falls too; but the two movements don’t echo, they come together...
...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...
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...