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Secondly, Bechis' list of past "professions" sounds like the resum of many Harvard students. When he enrolls in college he will realize that many students are math whizzes, musicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, and brilliant scholars. We are fortunate to be have such multi-talented peers, but even more fortunate that most of our peers enjoy learning from each other and don't presume to be the "inspiration" for everyone else...
Monteverdi's Vespers, performed on Friday, March 7, by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and a stellar array of guest artists, could be viewed as an audio resum. Claudio Monteverdi published the music we now call the 1610 Vespers in a volume of music printed probably at his own expense and dedicated to the Pope. The year before, Monteverdi had published a volume containing his opera L'Orfeo and dedicated to the future Duke of Mantua. In that first book, he showed that he was the master of the new theatrical style and that he could weld into new shapes...
...compendium; about whether Monteverdi envisioned using a chorus rather than a group of solo singers; about whether he had in mind a specific feast of the Virgin Mary. These are all worthy questions, but they shouldn't overshadow the beauty of the music. It is the best musical resum I've ever heard, and if I were the Pope I'd hire him. In fact, though, Monteverdi ultimately got a job that probably really suited his musical talents better: he spent some 30 years at the head of the music of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice...
Galvão ordered the Santa Maria to change course and turn east toward St. Lucia, one of Britain's Windward Islands. At 10 a.m. Galvao summoned the passengers to the tapestried first-class lounge, where the seizure was explained in Portuguese and Spanish, with an English resumé added for the benefit of 38 U.S. tourists...
...mimeographed a neatly capsuled news summary ("Oldest daily railroad commuter newspaper in New York City"). Not to be outdone, the Long Island Rail Road and the Long Island Press displayed news bulletins in Pennsylvania Station. Schrafft's chain with 39 Manhattan restaurants, presented their customers with a news resumé along with their menus...