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Cutting a multi-layered cake in the center of the courtyard at midnight, a beaming Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg, announced: "The Fogg has no middle-age crisis!" Slive, the staff, and the Friends of the Fogg have been working hard to give the museum a more-than-human life...
...self-appointed advocate of the capitalist system. In fact, I question whether anyone, never mind an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, deserves such loot. However, major league baseball has become a multi-million dollar entertainment business, and the press and fans must accept that fact...
...ACCOMPANIMENT OF the sounds of a tropical forest in a bird-infested jungle and flashing projection of lighting, John Cage, when he was at Harvard last semester, presented a multi-media symphonic reading of Thoreau's Walden, with a dozen readers speaking simultaneously in irregular polyphony. With its torrential waves of sentences upon sentences, and splashing words and spilling syllables, the Cage extravaganza explored the possibilities of the human voice when reduced to a cascading unintelligibility. Cage showed the cathartic effect of flooding all the senses, and I remember myself screaming in unison at the top of my lungs toward...
...similar multi-media reading of Dame Edith Sitwell's 1923 sound poem, Facade, is now at the Loeb. While I did not feel impelled to scream along with the show at the end--this being more like, say, a Mozart concerto than a Beethoven symphony--the Loeb production is admirably creative, refreshing and unhackneyed, and certainly deserved the spontaneous exclamation of approval of a member of the audience it did receive at the end of the first act the other night...
...second act is a repeat of the first, except this time with all the multi-media possibilities of the Loeb exploited. This part is wholly the creation of director Peter Sellars '80, Harvard's own artist-huckster Christo who as a freshman has foisted this crazy unorthodox production on the mainstage. His concept is a chic one A la Altman and Chorus Line, the director and actors got together during rehearsal in a dance studio filled with mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures...