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...poster of The Roots, a somewhat underground R&B group, hangs on the wall while a larger poster of Bob Marley is framed by separate photos of various other rappers. The poster serves as a memento from a concert she attended the year before. “I saw The Roots live in concert last year, and afterwards, me and a bunch of my friends went to the afterparty with them,” Adelman says. If memories of afterparties with Grammy-winning artists are any indication of Adelman’s social style, it’s safe...
...wasn’t only the diversity of the students that was striking to Harvard’s extremely talented cellist when she arrived here; the skills of Harvard musicians struck her profoundly.“When I got to Harvard, the talent and education I saw in my colleagues was just incredible. And I’ve been fortunate enough to work with some of the most talented musicians—not only at Harvard, but compared to music conservatories. They are top notch players.”This is high praise from an individual with a Cello Masters...
...real” Nutella in the glass jar, the impact of the Euro on the Salumeria, the less than desirable bresaola (air-cured beef) from Uruguay. The resonances between their favorite parts of the North End were almost as reassuring as the things I heard and saw while walking through the neighborhood. It was like stepping back into the 1930s, into a family-run community. Maria, the owner of the eponymous pastry shop, was in the back cooking while her daughter hung out in the front after school. Everyone was on a first name basis. The old men muttered...
Syncopated beats slam in a one-dimensional atmosphere, interrupted by deeper, more mechanical seizures, and the words, “I saw a savior / A savior come my way / I thought I’d see him / In the cold light of day.” Voices join in the background, building up throughout the song, sounding soft against the piston-pump that composes the spine of the track. Suddenly, the voices are gone. The beats duplicate themselves and pour in and out of one another, vibrating more eerily as extraterrestrial organs come alive, wheezing over the surge...
...through civil rights turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave college for a six-year military tour - first...