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...farmer - who raised him. Kwame means Saturday, the day he was born; Linus is his Christian, or colonial name. At school, in the lush hills of the Volta region - an area that had originally been colonized by the Germans, but later came under British rule - the young Kwame sang God Save the King and saluted the British flag. "That's the training for discipline," remembers Kwame, now 72. Along with discipline, the British brought some measure of modernity to Ghana - schools, hospitals - but from a young age Kwame sensed that "they would not open up development how we wanted...
...audiences, Durkin is a marketer's dream: 1.8 m tall and gobsmackingly glamorous, her cultural reference points are as much James Bond as James Levine, the Met's famed musical director, who has cast her as lead soprano in its 2008 production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha. Last May, Durkin sang alongside such luminaries as Karita Mattila, Pl?cido Domingo and Natalie Dessay as the company farewelled outgoing general manager Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia's touring school production...
...more than made up for it. Even though the opera was sung entirely in English, a side-screen displayed the lyrics to the arias. In general, it was sufficient to observe the facial expressions of the singers to understand the lyrics, but in numbers where three or four people sang, the screen was useful. While the production was enjoyable overall, the final scene of “Figaro,” in which the actors stood in a chorus line, did not fit quite well with da Ponte and Mozart’s already saccharine ending. It could be argued...
...sharp analytic skills.” “Larry has always been very good at identifying problems and analyzing problems,” she said. “He made me think harder and think better.” But on the question differences between the genders, Faust sang a different tune than Summers. “I think women have the aptitude to do anything, and that includes being president of Harvard,” she said. Faust said that Bok had presided over a year of healing. She added that she was impressed by two recent committee...
...Saturday night in Sanders Theatre, the soloist sang harmony—with himself. For just a few hours, the Harvard crest was covered by thungkas, or Tibetan wall hangings, as the audience welcomed monks from the esoteric and venerable Tibetan Tantric Choir...