Word: bach
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Nearly every weekend Harvard kiosques parade poster advertisements for classical music events and concerts. The dynamic performance environment includes the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), originally known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808, which holds sold-out performances in Sanders theatre. In addition to the HRO there is the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) (founded 1954), the Mozart Society Orchestra (founded 1984), the Collegium Musicum, the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Chorus Society and scores of student organized chamber groups. Any sort of musical talent is bound to find a satisfying outlet at Harvard. Who are the students who make up these groups...
...Symphony. His tenure has not been without controversy. There was the occasional grumbling about working for a “jet-set” conductor with tedious rehearsal habits. Certain critics found his Baroque and Classical repertoire interpretations unsatisfying and uninformed, though anyone who heard him conduct a marvelous Bach Mass in B Minor last season can certainly refute that claim. However, his innumerable contributions are often overlooked. Audiences and musicians alike have responded to his passionate podium presence and technical brilliance. He has impeccable tastes in repertoire; a quick glance in the program at all the works...
...insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets the upper hand over le jazz hot. At the end, the teacher learns a thing or two about the music his loving children love to play. "My heart still belongs to the Masters," he says, referring to Beethoven and Bach, not plantation slave lords, "but look what swing has done...
...Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, the eager-to-offend rapper fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman is seeking $10 million and the destruction of all Marshall Mathers LP CDs still on the market. Eminem representatives...
...release of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" marked a true publishing phenomenon; 32 million copies have been sold in 39 languages. Now Bach is back, working on an unlikely new series of books called "The Ferret Chronicles," starring a band of "intelligent, pacifist ferrets who live and work in a world alongside of their human counterparts." The first two installments, "Rescue Ferrets at Sea" and "Air Ferrets Aloft" will be published on June 25. Will his readers find skunks' furry first cousins as appealing as seagulls? Stay tuned...