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...events this weekend may already be, the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble has come up with a performance that will make this weekend’s mix of events even spicier. They’re offering five works in one of performance art’s most traditional media: opera. On Saturday, April 22 at 2:00 p.m., Leverett Old Library will serve as the venue for five operas written by Peter L. McMurray ’05, Elizabeth C. Lim ’08, Matthew L. Mendez ’09, Emily C. Richmond...
What discs, you might ask? Only four will be available this week--Serenity, Million Dollar Baby, The Phantom of the Opera and The Last Samurai. But three big Hollywood studios are planning to rush out more HD DVD titles in the next month or two10 from Paramount, 10 from Universal and 20 from Warner Bros. List prices range from $29 to $40; Amazon.com is charging as little as $20 for some titles. Netflix has said it will distribute every HD DVD title--and, when they become available, all Blu-ray titles--for rent immediately upon release...
...extols the virtues of impermanence and forgetfulness. Both characters are played brilliantly by John Kelly, who provides a vital link between the stories in Hades and on Earth. As Persephone, he steals the emotional show from the more demonstrative Orpheus and Eurydice. The form of the play resembles an opera re-imagined by a Beat poet: sung and spoken dialogue alternates, often bleeding into each other and usually backed by the cacophonous melodies of a band on one side of the stage. Virtually each line is delivered with breathtaking intensity, which contributes to the tone but occasionally leads to some...
Baroque as it was, that soap opera was merely a warm-up. On Oct. 16 Rumsfeld wrote a memo titled "Global War on Terrorism" that was quickly leaked to reporters. The memo, first reported by USA Today, reads like a report card for the Bush team since 9/11, and the marks aren't great. "We are having mixed results with al-Qaeda, although we have put considerable pressure on them--nonetheless, a great many remain at large ... we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing killing or deterring...
...Chinese] are interested in things like, that he had a farmer’s taste in food, slept by day and worked by night, [and] liked Peking opera,” he said...