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Assisted by a bevy of soloists and readings of the wunderkind??s letters, the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake’s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of Music Director Akiko Fujimoto, the orchestra lacks technical polish across all sections, and has trouble achieving the mountain air clarity that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony...
...curse on any sophomore effort that is made only worse by the fact that Foer, on account of his young age, is expected to outdo himself with every successive outing. When the debut was published, he was heralded in the press as a “certified wunderkind?? and an “obvious talent,” while the book itself was uniformly dubbed “impressive”—a dubious honor which implies, like it or not, a measure of condescension even if it is an expression of approval...
There are the parents of athletes who believe they have raised the next big star and have tricked themselves into thinking that a place on a Harvard sports team is the way to go. There are the dramatic parents who want to give you the whole story, from wunderkind??s birth to this very moment, because somehow they’ve decided that you care. The silent parents who let their prospective student do “all” the talking, only interrupting to correct every mistake, dot every verbal...
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