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“At long last, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has approved the proposed theater, dance, and media concentration after months of deliberation. Harvard students can declare the new major this fall, but senior Mark Mauriello, 22, already had a jump start.”

“To quote Oscar himself, ‘He fascinated everybody worth fascinating.’ I found his story to be particularly apt for a performance work because so much of it is about just that, performance – Oscar performing as a cultural icon during his lifetime, the way he performed the ‘role’ of Oscar Wilde, performance in terms of his sexual identity and the culture of his time forcing that underground.”

“It’s fitting that the Harvard senior will soon portray Oscar Wilde: As a budding playwright, Mauriello reminds us of the man he’s playing.”

Aucoin’s music, especially in his solo vocal writing, can be highly emotional and chromatic, often built on series of thirds or fourths, rather than stepwise or tonal melodies.