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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complete list of articles | 7/13/2004 | See Source »

Pity the plight of the super bestseller. Louis de Bernières was 39 when his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, became a surprise global phenomenon, selling around 3.5 million copies in 24 languages. Now, at 49, he's just getting around to publishing the follow-up, Birds Without Wings (Secker & Warburg). What has he done in the intervening decade? A few short stories, a biblical preface, and a lame children's novella called Red Dog. With his fans clamoring for more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandolin Overboard | 6/27/2004 | See Source »

Complaints of inadequate music opportunities at Harvard are nothing new. Zaccagnino mentions that even in the late 19th century “there was the first real musician club at Harvard—the Guitar and Mandolin Club (which later became the Instrumental Clubs). This club represented the students who were doing new things—playing non-classical music, and not studying music at the University. While the professors interested in music thought that the music these students were playing was inferior to classical music, they nevertheless recognized that these students were some of the most talented...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Recording Veritas | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...trials for the Freshman Mandolin Club last evening, the following men were retained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Mandolin Club Trials | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

...Scotch-Irish line dancing, Newman has been playing in contra bands since the age of 13, and counts himself as part of the “great diaspora of contra dancing” he says has spread all the way to Alaska. He not only plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, guitar and contra piano, but also wrote his Harvard admissions essay on contra and community building. “My admissions officer wrote me and said, ‘We need you here to liven things up!’” he says. And that?...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Margaretta E. Homsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Contra Conversion | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

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