Exit Facebook. You are no longer my favorite procrastination tool. Enter LibraryThing.After all, what fun is perusing the newly publicized intimate details of peripheral friends' lives when I can catalogue every book I have ever read and compare the resulting compendium to other users' online libraries?
In preparation for the upcoming presidential election, the Student Union will collaborate with other campus departments and organizations on an initiative called Brandeis Votes, a nonpartisan voter registration drive and voting awareness project.
When I was solicited to write an article for this issue's Forum section, I had no idea where to begin.
The Brandeis Early Music Ensemble, directed by Prof. Sarah Mead (MUS), presented a Hero and Leander-themed concert for a small audience in the Slosberg Recital Hall Sunday at 3 p.m.
Adam Green's rich, mature voice is deliciously listenable, and his songs have always been catchy, if not deep; the tracks off his new album Sixes & Sevens are no different.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's concert last Friday featured Garrick Ohlsson playing Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Shostakovich's Symphony No.
A Friday afternoon at the symphony has an almost giddy feel to it. The weekend hasn't actually begun, so there is no gravitas of a nighttime excursion, and those of us in the audience who aren't retirees have that slightly adolescent pleasure of slipping away from the work week just a little early.
I love symphonies. I love when the entire orchestra sounds at once and sends the audience reeling, like in Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony or in anything by Mahler, and I love when the strings shimmer so delicately that the music seems to be made of spun glass, and I especially love when every person in the concert hall holds his breath after a perfect finale, seconds before the hall explodes into applause.That being said, I have just spent the past 40 minutes listening to the lead singers of various metal bands scream about raping Christians and summoning Satan to eat and drink of said Christians' flesh and blood.This stems in part from reading Daniel D.
Mozart, Brahms and their ilk wrote genius, timeless works, but they are not the be-all end-all of classical music that did not go out of fashion with the muttonchop sideburn.
La Bohaeme is not an intellectual opera Oe la Zauberflite or some high-minded Wagnerian epic. At Saturday night's "Bravo Bohaeme" performance at the Shubert Theater, tickets to which were sold at half-price to young professionals and provided by the Boston Cultural Arts Club at $10, even the singing wasn't brilliant: Rodolfo (Sean Panikkar) weakened at the extremes of his range and even Mimc (Jill Gardner) was periodically underpowered.But La Bohaeme doesn't need profundity and virtuosity to resound, especially with today's college students.
BEMCo in the basement: supervisors speak on recent policy changes
“New Year, no genocide”: Brandeis Jewish Bund hosts first vigil this year
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Brandeis receives overall F in college free speech
The Brandeis Jewish Bund holds first event of the academic year, grows interest from students in-person and online