Beyond the Bubble: Stand-out Honors
This week has been marked by stand-out honors recognizing inspiring artists across all genres.
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This week has been marked by stand-out honors recognizing inspiring artists across all genres.
The show opened with Abraham's "Another Night," a dazzling work in part commissioned by the Hopkins Center in celebration of the Year of the Arts. Set to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' recording of Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia," Abraham's choreography captures frantic pace of city street traffic through the energy and humor of the dancers' solos.
The concert, which began with Copland's fanfare, presented the audience with an eclectic, colorful combination of rhythms and transitioned between moods thoughtfully. A hearty call-and-response between brass and percussion instruments, cleverly spotlit during the show, the work was intended to stir national spirit during America's entry into World War II. In a way it served its original purpose yesterday as it prepared the audience to enter into Giannini's rousing four-movement symphony.
"Candide," conducted by Glee Club director Louis Burkot and stage-directed by actor, musician and Broadway veteran David Beach '86, is a fast-paced, ruckus of a comedy musical that uncovers the journey of its unwaveringly idealistic title character as he seeks ultimate satisfaction with the world. The performance is the Glee Club's first production of such scale in recent memory.
Columbia University's Arts Initiative is perhaps most comparable to the College's. Started by university president Lee Bollinger in 2004, it is an ongoing program designed to make the arts community more accessible and encourage students to partake in arts courses to try something new.
Andrea Marcon, a harpsichordist and Baroque scholar, has directed the orchestra since its creation 15 years ago. Marcon began his musical involvement playing piano and organ in Venice.
Learning to drive was hard for me, in part because of a particular habit of my father's. Whenever I sat behind the wheel, he would buckle himself in and hold tightly onto the handle above the window. He would always tell me, "If the police pull you over, always end your sentences with sir.' Don't make sudden movements, don't look them in the eye and tell them where your license and registration are before you reach for them."