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...they incorporate. While “Foforo Fo Firi” is reminiscent of the best Afro-Cuban tunes, “Brother Running/Brother Gettin’ Caught” speaks the language of the post-Marsalis jazz combo. “New Second Line” captures the joy of Mardi Gras, with all the swagger and raucousness of a Fat Tuesday parade. The sweet simple statement of Tom Jobim’s bossa “Corcovado” is a welcome cool-down midway through an otherwise frolicking album...
...Woolgatherer possesses a great deal of energy and emotion, and although the actors occasionally become overzealously swept up in the moment, the fact that they are so excited about the project is refreshing, and excuses their transgressions. The production staff, led by director Joy B. Fairfield ’03, is relatively young, and their age does show. At times The Woolgatherer resembles an overly dramatized high school production, but, despite its flaws, the cast of two manages to hold the audience’s attention against the appropriately depressing...
Bruce Chilton, a religion professor at Bard College whose book Rabbi Jesus was published in October, says recent scholarship finds a great deal more meaning and joy in the proceedings. Pilgrimages were festive occasions, with families or friends traveling together and camping overnight in the hills around the city and singing cheerful sacred songs outside the Temple. Although parts of the sacrifice would be immolated for the Lord or consumed by the priests, others would be cooked and shared by the pilgrims, who ate little meat the rest of the year. "Not only would they offer this very scarce protein...
...Booke will not simply leave it at that. His joy over the eschatological future does not render him blind to the scandalous present. "We love the Jewish people," he says, then glances at the Muslim gatekeepers and adds, "These are all God's people. When everybody else is afraid, we come to support this land. To support the souvenir sellers. We pray for this land. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem...
...Bunting Fellows Poetry Reading took place on April 2, in the Cronkhite Living room on Ash Street, and featured the two poets Natasha Trethewey and Brenda Shaughnessy. Each poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey’s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style...