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Alexander S. Misono ’04, violinist and music director of Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra, described her as “the most brilliant, most talented and most accomplished musician in our age bracket in the entire world...
...saying, ‘I’m at Harvard, I’m going to let all the music go now,’ I felt even more so that all I wanted to do was play bass.” Though he was a member of the Bach Society Orchestra and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra he felt that music was “too much of an extra-curricular pursuit, which I didn’t want it to be. I wanted it to be my main focus.” His course load echoed that sentiment...
...Bach Society Orchestra
...Bach Society Orchestra kicked off its first performance of the season Friday night with the highly experimental “Moz-Art à la Haydn” by Alfred Schnittke. While the piece’s eerie qualities were fitting for the concert’s Halloween date, the reduced ensemble did not seem fully at ease with this foray onto new ground. The piece—designed to be as much for visual as for aural effect—began with discordant melodies played on a dark stage, then evolved into fragments of Mozart and Haydn themes coupled...
...eventually, that it got good. It entered the realm of comedy when a screen came down to flash a slide show of stale VES pieces that were seen in the Advocate a few years ago. In front, a tuxedoed undergrad pulled out a cello and gave us some Bach. What a creative way to celebrate the arts...