Word: rachmaninoff
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...music doesn’t help matters. At climactic scenes the score is woundingly jarring and Aleve-inducing: Rachmaninoff meets a bulldozer. You always know when the nuclearized freaks are close because of your impending headache...
...wonders if the choice of Mendelssohn was in the best interests of BachSoc, especially considering that the piece is not, beyond the first movement, strikingly melodic. There are composers whose concertos highlight both soloist and back-up—Rachmaninoff immediately comes to mind—but the selection of night seemed merely a grandstanding opportunity for Jeong to showcase her talents...
...other scene here. Their staff is just another bunch of crackpot weirdos who really want to validate their existence, just like the rest of us.Needless to say, Harvard has many different scenes within its walls. There is a Mathematics-concentrator scene that seems to involve a lot of Rachmaninoff and anime. There is a Biology scene, which appears to require constant avowals of a preference for “academic biology” and a hatred of “medical school.” And there is a pretentious, English-concentrator scene that definitely entails smoking and pretending Gordon...
...working on your term paper. You look across the room at an unfamiliar face. The two of you simultaneously peruse facebook.com on your wireless internet to find one another, and in the span of a single heartbeat your eyes meet after reading that you share a love for coffee, Rachmaninoff, and the Godfather series. Whatever function facebook.com serves for you, it is without question a source of distraction and entertainment for all. I for one am personally thankful that it has brought me to unbelievable heights of procrastination. In fact, I’ve checked my profile approximately 46 times...
...Picasso--was sold off when the insurance became prohibititive, and replaced with a Japanese silk-screen painting and a Chinese mirror painting. The big Steinway commands the living room, when it is not on the road with him. Near by on the wall are four autographed photographs: Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, Puccini and Toscanini...