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...lectured, four students performed a string quartet in the sun outside the steps of Mass. Hall in a demonstration of support for the students inside...
DIED. JOHN LEWIS, 80, primary composer and musical director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet; after a battle with prostate cancer; in New York City. Lewis joined classical sensibilities with jazz improv to create his distinct sound and insisted that the M.J.Q. perform in tuxes in an attempt to make jazz as respectable as classical music. His compositions Django and Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West have become jazz standards...
...broad range of images collapsed into the space of the crucifix-the processional crosses in particular-was amazing, and encompass many more theological elements than the standard Christ-in-Torment . A common addition is the Apostle Quartet, usually in their symbolic representations: Luke as an ox, Matthew the angel, John the eagle, and Mark the lion. Two sets of plaques from processional crosses are beautifully enameled with these figures, the greens and blues breathtakingly vivid through so many centuries. Sometimes Adam rises from his tomb on the bottom spar, and in one mid 1400s Italian work it's Mary Magdalen...
This band swims the murky gulf between jazz and rock in search of fresh riffs. Entirely instrumental, the songs start with simple melodies that slowly make their way to climaxes full of overlapping rhythms that alternate between funky and mechanical. The Chicago quartet makes sure that the beat holds sway over melodic noodling; it's the percussion and keyboard textures that impress. Standards presents a slightly more guitar-heavy version of the usual Tortoise weirdness. These tunes are nothing like those to be found in a standards fake book. Is there a Grammy for Best Misnomer...
Sitting beneath a portrait of former President Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, Rudenstine and his wife Angelica Zander Rudenstine dined with members of the House, while being serenaded by a student string quartet...