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...scenery, created by Thomas Boyd, who also designed the set for Dracula, is grand in scale and presentation. Boyd's showstopper in this production is a golden barge. The barge, complete with oarsmen, morphs into a magnificent, multi-colored throne invoking Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun. Boyd chose to enhance the dichotomy between the Egypt of Cleopatra-light, airy and feminine-and the Rome of Caesar, which is cold, stoic and masculine. The music, composed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged by John Lanchberry, echoes these themes as well...
...York is surely an irascible city, but similar classes are cropping up in much quieter places, towns like Medway, in southern Massachusetts, and Sumter, in rural South Carolina. In Chicago, Leonard Ingram, a.k.a. Bhagwan Ra Afrika, incorporates "Western, Eastern and African approaches" into anger treatments. And Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville puts out an Anger Workbook that reminds enraged Christians that Jesus said we should love our neighbors as ourselves...
...lead seven minutes into the game. Employing a full-court press, the Mountain Hawks forced the Crimson ballhandlers into poor interior passing and in general were quicker to the ball than Harvard. Going inside didn't work either as 6'10 Lehigh junior Sah-U-Ra Brown had three of his four blocks in the first half...
...someone who composes his music from recombinations of pre-existing sound fragments, a remix album is certainly appropriate. Subliminal Minded, DJ Spooky's follow-up to last year's Riddim Warfare, combines remixes, sound collages and general mayhem in a sonic soup that is equal parts John Cage, Sun Ra, Grandmaster Flash, and Aphrodite. DJ Spooky, a. k. a. That Subliminal Kid, a. k. a. Paul D. Miller, is a founder of the New York illbient sound, which blends the urban, rhythmic edge of hip-hop, dub and jungle with the abstract, ambient noise techniques of French musique concrte...
Among its many technological wonders, the library boasted Ra-Tox venetian blinds, "the world's most modern windows" by Thermopane, Celotex acoustical ceilings, the Sikes "Seats of Knowledge," Art Metal Steel book stacks and a state-of-the-art air conditioning system by the G.A. Berman...