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...efforts to control and combine the production of words and music. Actor Mickey Solis portrays the former as Joe in “Words and Music” and Voice in “Cascando.” An ensemble of pianist Donald Berman, percussionist Robert Schulz, and violinist Gil Morgenstern personifies music as Bob in “Words and Music” and Music in “Cascando...
...through his midriff. But the novel is overly centered around him and preoccupied with proving to us just how cool he is: yes, he is a smooth talker; yes, he has sex appeal; yes, he is well-read; yes, he is a great acrobat; yes, he is a marvelous violinist and pianist—how long does this list have to be before you switch off and nothing comes as a surprise any longer? It is somewhat difficult to empathize with a character who is portrayed as a demi-god and acts like it, too. Høeg?...
...opening of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s 200th season was going to be incredible from the very beginning. When the esteemed James Yannatos, music director of the orchestra since 1964, first graced the stage, he triumphantly grabbed and lifted the hands of concertmaster and first-chair violinist Aaron T. Kuan ’09 and cellist Jessica J. Wang ’08. By the end of the evening, it was the audience who was lifting their hands in applause for the orchestra’s outstanding performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony...
...this year’s season, Yannatos allowed the orchestra members to have a deciding hand in the programming. “HRO votes on the repertoire we play, so our season really reflects what the orchestra loves,” says Christine L. Barron ’09, violinist and president of the HRO. “In particular, ‘The Planets’ and Mahler’s 5th were among the highest voted pieces.”THE REIGN OF YANNATOSThe orchestra as it appears now was firmly shaped by Yannatos’s arrival...
Last Saturday, the Bach Society Orchestra inaugurated its 54th concert season in Paine Hall with a stellar performance of Vaughan Williams, Paganini, and Beethoven. Guest violinist Ryu Goto ’10 captured the spotlight along with music director Aram V. Demirjian ’08, who led the orchestra with great professionalism.The evening began with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Overture to “The Wasps,” a popular selection from a suite written for a 1909 production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture...