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Davis has spent her years at Harvard immersed in music. She is a full-time member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Bach Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and occasionally performs with other groups. She says her most rewarding performance was the Britten Serenade—a piece written for solo horn and voice—with...
...Harvard, Gray has focussed her extracurricular life on music—playing for a time in the Bach Society Orchestra—and community service, including the MIHNUET and HARMONY programs...
...bright rehearsal room somewhere in the backstage labyrinth of London's Royal National Theatre, more than 30 men and women - soaring sopranos, firm baritones - are singing what sounds like a solemn Mass - Bach, perhaps. Except the words don't fit. They abruptly launch into an eyebrow-raising staccato fugue - melodically intertwining the phrases "Chick with a dick," "My Mom used to be my Dad, snip, snip," and "I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual" - and it becomes evident that possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer...
...film is anchored around lead character Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli (Keitel), a classical pianist and debt collector for the mob. In the opening scenes, he ecstatically plays a Bach toccata in his New York apartment, then meets with his raspy-voiced mobster father for his next assignment. The film traces his descent into criminality as the divisions in his character lead to the destruction of his dreams...
...BACH SOC COMPETITION WINNER. The Bach Society Orchestra, directed by Sean H. Ryan ’03, presents Azura Rising, the winning submission in the 2003 Composition Competition, written by freshman Benjamin E. Green ’06. The Orchestra, Harvard’s only entirely student-run orchestra, will also play Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Ligeti’s Ramifications, Stravinsky’s Suite no. 1 for small orchestra, and Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo. Friday, April 25 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets $8 regular, $6 students, available at the Harvard...