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A Musical Conversation of 35 Years… and Counting
For 35 years, the Muir String Quartet has been touring the nation and the world, taking the stage at concert halls grand and modest, and garnering awards from a Grammy to two Grand Prix des Disques....
View ArticleNew BU Tanglewood Institute Director Strikes Optimistic Chord
Building on the legacy of her longtime predecessor, Phyllis Hoffman (CFA’61,’67), Hilary Field Respass, the new executive director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), has been working...
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Huntington’s The Second Girl Shadows O’Neill
In his new play The Second Girl, Ronan Noone turns Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey into Night upside down, taking things from the parlor to the kitchen to illuminate the trials of the...
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DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition
Dana Gluckstein was launching a successful career as a commercial photographer when a spur-of-the-moment decision changed her life. After shooting an annual report for a corporate client in 1983 in...
View ArticleCFA Lecturer Nominated for Grammy Award
Known internationally for a tone critics have described as “classy, clear, refined, polished, and lovely,” tenor Aaron Sheehan is best known for his interpretations of the oratorios and cantatas of...
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A Choir of Angels and So Much More
Tony Kushner’s rich, sprawling play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is nothing if not operatic, so it was perhaps inevitable that it would be adapted as an opera. Set in 1985 and...
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Mind, Body Wrestle in CFA’s Wit
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Wit is a devastating character study that ultimately transcends character to consider what it means to be alive, and, as illness chastens and diminishes us, what...
View ArticleBest Student Films Celebrated at Redstone Film Festival
First, a warning—Wednesday night is the 35th annual Redstone Film Festival, and the Tsai Performance Center can hold only about 515 people. Last year, as most years, there wasn’t an empty seat. Films...
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Learning from the Masters
People walking past the 808 Gallery on Commonwealth Avenue can be forgiven for doing a double take. Visible through the plateglass windows are two giant sculptures of lionfish, their sheer size and...
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Pulling Punches with Angie Jepson
In January 2012, the Boston Globe and Playbill reported that actress Joanna Day had broken her hand during a scripted scuffle in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Yasmina Reza’s God of...
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Modern Retelling of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at BU Theatre
Call this the year of Anton Chekhov, reimagined. Boston theater audiences were treated to a comic mashup of the great Russian playwright’s works last month with the Huntington Theatre Company’s...
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Salute to Leonard Nimoy (Hon.’12), Star Trek Icon, Boston Son
When Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy came to Boston University in 2012 to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the University’s 139th Commencement, he gave the Convocation address to the...
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An Eye-Popping Show at the Sherman Gallery
For anyone tired of this winter’s monochromatic landscape (snow-filled skies above and slushy gray sidewalks below), a new show at the Sherman Gallery offers a handy antidote. Titled The Beatles Are...
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Scathing Night at The Colored Museum
When it premiered off Broadway in 1986, The Colored Museum knocked the socks off audiences and critics with its 11 “exhibits”—sketches about being black in America that go for the jugular as well as...
View ArticleStep About Boston
St. Patrick’s Day is a time for celebrating all things Irish—food, music, dance, among others. But one group of students has made it their mission to celebrate and promote the culture all year long....
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One Class, One Day: The Experimental Photograph
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU. The...
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The Nile Project Comes to BU
Forget about the Charles River. This week, everyone’s going to be buzzing about the Nile River. The Nile Project, a collaborative enterprise that combines music, education, and leadership and...
View ArticleMarin Alsop at Podium, Minus Her Baton
Marin Alsop is probably one of the few mere mortals who could concurrently be principal conductor and music director of orchestras in two major cities, Baltimore and São Paulo, Brazil, presiding over...
View ArticleWicked Serious
“This is not a fun business, no matter what people say on awards shows. You just have to have the thickest skin.” Tough words from composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, the man responsible for such...
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A Musical Conversation of 35 Years…and Counting
For 35 years, the Muir String Quartet has been touring the nation and the world, taking the stage at concert halls grand and modest, and garnering awards from a Grammy to two Grand Prix des Disques....
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