Selkoff trio uneven at concert
The Selkoff Trio's first and last concert on the morning of May 1 had the dubious distinction of being the most poorly attended concert I've ever seen.
The Selkoff Trio's first and last concert on the morning of May 1 had the dubious distinction of being the most poorly attended concert I've ever seen.
I so badly wanted Good: A Play With Music to be good, if for no other reason than to spare myself the puns.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of undergraduate musicians called the Irving Fine Society, under the direction of Nicholas Alexander Brown '10, came together to present a concert of works written by their namesake, the composer and Brandeis Music Department founder Irving Fine, as well as to premier works by Brandeis undergraduates, in the spirit of musical creativity that Fine championed.
Let me begin reviewing City of Angels by confessing that I did not particularly care for the show itself.
Over the past four years, Sarah Krevsky '08 has been an elderly New Yorker, a teenage lesbian and a Bosnian villager-not to mention an actress, a leader and the head of what she describes as "a community, an experience and a sisterhood." But Krevsky says that what keeps her coming back to The Vagina Monologues every year is simply that "every year, the cast is so amazing," yet "each year gets better and better!"As the head coordinator and the only 2008 cast member to have participated in The Vagina Monologues for all four of her years at Brandeis, Krevsky has passions for both the show and the community that are hard to match.
It's getting to be the time of year when many seniors are buried in the depths of the library, feverishly pounding out page after page of their senior thesis, fueled by caffeine and a thinly-veiled panic-but not Rachel Lehmann '08.
On Friday night at Jordan Hall, The Cantata Singers, one of Boston's premiere choral ensembles, performed pieces written by three composers-two German, one Italian-whose lives and work were indelibly marked by the rise of fascism and the devastation of the World Wars.Kurt Weill's angry anti-war Legend of the Dead Soldier, Luigi Dallapiccola's cry for freedom, Songs of the Prisoners and, finally, Carl Orff's famous Carmina Burana were all written after the end of World War I but before the Allies' victory in World War II-a dark and disturbing time in Europe, which produced dark and disturbing art.
Let's face it. On some level, don't we all hate Hamlet, just a little bit? Even if we love it? Nobody likes being intimidated, and English literature doesn't get much more intimidating than Shakespeare's master tragedy.
After undergoing a rigorous audition process and spending a year coming together as musicians and as friends, the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship Trio of the Class of 2010 gave their first concert of the year.
The Lydian String Quartet gave an uneven but exciting performance Saturday night as part of their "Around the World in a String Quartet" series, featuring works by composers from around the globe.
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