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April 6, 2026
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'Life' has never been so trivial

By Peter Jenks | May 15, 2002

Stephen Herek's new film "Life or Something Like It" is interesting. Interesting in some aspects of its plot, some characters and some purely cinematic features, but never very good.

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Galbraith meets mixed reviews

By Chris Danford | May 7, 2002

In its program notes for the Paul Galbraith performance Sunday night, the Hopkins Center called his style a "groundbreaking development in the history of classical guitar." But before you imagine "groundbreaking developments" as if they were somehow grand revelations or massive revolutions, note these key words: "classical guitar." Classical guitarists are distinguished from the likes of Jimi Hendrix primarily by the manufacture of the guitar itself and the fact that classical guitarists use their fingers only, not guitar picks. Galbraith actually did bring major changes to the world of classical guitar.

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Portuondo heats up Spaulding

By Katherine Carolan | May 2, 2002

This year at Dartmouth there have been several Latin jazz artists who made their way through the Hop, including Jimmy Bosch and Bobby Sanabria. However, no performance has matched the electricity and excitement that was felt when Omara Portuondo performed in Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday night.

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Ensemble reinvents, quiets cynics

By Brent Reidy | May 1, 2002

There is an unwritten rule in music: remixes and reinventions of old classics are usually bad. Twice this year Dartmouth students have been witness to this truth, with Wynton Marsalis' attempt to play John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" and Uri Caine's disastrous stab at Bach's "Goldberg Variations." Thankfully, a group performed last Friday that quiets the cynic in all our hearts, reminding us why reinvention can work. Ensemble Ongaku-Zammai performs romantic masterpieces in an unusual arrangement of period and modern instruments.

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Lewis highlights Festival in Hop

By Abigail Nova | April 25, 2002

From pianos programmed to play themselves to a jazz band's wild improvisation, Tuesday night's Festival of New Music, held in Spaulding Auditorium, delivered original sounds from electronic and computer-based composers. Electro-acoustic music has a surprisingly long history, beginning in 1759 with Jean-Baptiste de La Borde's invention of the Clavecin Electrique, which according to Joel Chadabe, author of "Electric Sound," was a "sort of keyboard-controlled carillon in which suspended bells were struck by clappers charged with static electricity." The first major electric musical instrument of the 20th century was the Telharmonium, a large keyboard instrument invented to broadcast music via telephone lines.

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'Stein' depicts human condition

By Peter Jenks | April 24, 2002

Good romantic comedies are hard to come by. But from time to time a film will come along that makes you forget the typically clichd story line by throwing a new twist onto an old recipe.

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