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...their copycat i-Pod accessories, few have new tools that encourage music-making. One of the most creative and refreshing new applications at this year's show, therefore, is a digital piano-learning game that encourages kids (and musically curious adults) to toy around with a piano keyboard. "From Bach to Bon Jovi, your child will be playing in minutes," the company's tag line promises. And despite the product's crude, toddler-friendly design, the program actually works well to introduce the basic concept of piano fingering without forcing novices to master the complex concept of classical music notation...
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...given field than they could under the Core alone.African and African American Studies 175, according to Elisabeth Y. Ndour ’08, is “one way of expanding the core along international lines... I do not see why there should be a Core course on Bach, but not on African music.”“Harvard is diverse enough that we can’t get stuck on one canon of music or literature,” says Ndour.Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” was also approved...
...Minor from Bach’s second Well-Tempered Clavier. The piece was short but well played. Grader set up the next performer, Yoshitaka Yamamoto ’08, very nicely. Yamamoto played Franz Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on the name “BACH.” Yamamoto displayed agility and attention to detail here, playing blistering lines with ease on the manuals and foot-pedals alike. This was certainly one of the finer moments of the evening.Harry Huff, the assistant organist and choirmaster of Memorial Church, took the bench then for a duet with cellist...
Despite the on-stage heat that orchestra members described as brutal, the Bach Society Orchestra (Bach Soc) gave an energetic performance in Paine Hall, one of the only slutty bunny-free venues on campus Saturday night. Unsurprisingly, Bach Soc kicked off their 2006-7 season with Bach’s Suite for Orchestra No. 1. With a program that also included Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”), the orchestra demonstrated their facility with a range of musical styles. Music Director Aram V. Demirjian...