Word: orchestra
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Despite my unwillingness to conform, I eventually did and became accustomed to the changes in my life. In my first semester, I joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and comped The Crimson. I had been heavily involved in a student-run organization in high school and wanted to be part of another one. I found that I really enjoyed being part of The Crimson and was very interested in business, so second semester, I became an operations/finance associate. A year later, I became finance manager and I still enjoy...
Coming from a quiet, structured family life to a wonderfully unstructured and often loud college life, my first weeks at Harvard were a time of frenetic activity, rushing from the intro meeting of the South Asian Association (SAA) to the first rehearsal of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra, shopping about 10 classes (it took me about three tries just to find Harvard Hall, no small building), and trying to meet as many people as possible only to realize I had forgotten their names only half an hour later--just as they probably had forgotten mine...
...orchestra was looking for a younger soloist for a concert celebrating conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th anniversary with the orchestra and had obtained a tape of Lin playing a solo with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra without Lin's knowledge. Artistic administrator Anthony Fogg gave him a call...
...This summer he will play at the Marlboro chamber music festival in Vermont before performing the Brahms double concerto with the Orchestra of Saint Luke's at the Caramoor Festival, which he describes as a smaller version of Tanglewood...
...summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York City to celebrate Chinese New Year...