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Nearly a century ago in Paris, the world premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring?? with the Ballet Russes was met with such an intense riot that the performance had to be stopped in an attempt to quell the uproar. The extreme chaos and newness inherent to the music and the accompanying dance incited the outrage of the conservative audience. However, decades later, the brilliance of Stravinsky and the choreographer of the Ballet Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, revealed itself, drastically changing the course of ballet and classical music.On Saturday night, the Harvard...
...dance in particular, that would shape all future exploits. Early Diaghilevan productions have not only remained in the repertory of many major ballet companies but have also taken their rightful places amidst the historical cannon. “Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring?? (“Le Sacre du Printemps”), two ballets with specially commissioned scores by Igor Stravinsky, are perhaps two of the most famous; the latter, with choreography by the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, caused a furor at its inception by virtue of its outrageous costumes, unusual choreography...
...Martha Tennent hopes to begin to redress this historic injustice. How deeply unfortunate, then, that the novel itself cannot live up to the promise of a hidden classic. A brief work of only 150 pages, told in dense four-page episodes, “Death in Spring?? creates a world at once strange and familiar: a nameless town characterized by brutal, gratuitous violence and the prevalence of the bizarre, narrated through an unusual set of eyes—those of a teenage boy. Rodoreda’s narrator is a remarkably dispassionate protagonist, remarking in turns...
...There are few things that carry more intrinsic good than a bike ride. Bike skeptics truly underestimate the simple pleasure of riding down the banks of the Charles on the first warm day of the spring??and the knowledge that you are frolicking entirely carbon-free. The Boston and Harvard bike-shares can make this a reality, sooner rather than later. We don’t just applaud these new initiatives; we give them a standing ovation...
General David H. Petraeus, chief of U.S. military operations in much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Middle East, will speak at this spring??s Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremonies at both Harvard and MIT, a top ROTC official confirmed earlier today...