Word: bach
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...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...shifted his focus to college life and chose to play with Harvard groups like the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Bach Society Orchestra, Lowell House Opera and Gilbert & Sullivan Players...
...Bach's Saint John Passion "It's exalted and gloomy, a range that I find congenial...
...Xbox advertising--is a little different. The staff here can't wait to thrust a green-and-black Xbox into your hands, show off dozens of cool games--and loudly taunt the game spooks up the road. "Let's face it, Nintendo's system is for kids," says Robbie Bach, Xbox's gruff-voiced team leader. "We're for sophisticated gamers. I don't know any 30-year-olds who want a GameCube...
...alleged IQ-boosting effect of the music of Bach and Mozart: we should be encouraging children to listen to it not for how it stimulates the brain but for how it stimulates the heart. BARBARA KLASKIN HARRIS Los Angeles...