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Faithful to what she describes as her philosophy of "fusion-style," Ms. Robison dared to couple Vivaldi's florid 1725 orchestration with booming, modern instruments and techniques. She described many contemporary instrumentalists as drooling over and fantasizing about playing early pieces by the likes of Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian...
...third suite, however, that he carried us to Nirvana, majestically transporting Bach's popular Bourree and finally enrapturing the auditorium with a sweeping and textured Gigue. For the sixth suite, Wispelwey played a "periodically correct" violoncello piccolo with five strings, as opposed to the contemporary cello's four, entrancing the listeners with a frolicking and triumphal first Gavotte...
SCOPE '95-'97, Founder & Pres.; Concertmaster of Harvard Bach Soc. Orchestra, '93-'95; Board Mbr. & Coord. of House HAND Prog, '95-'97; Mbr. of Woman's Leadership Project & Mentorship Prog. '95-'96; Stu. delegate of Comm. on Undergraduate Degrees (Sociology...
Prefect Program, Steering Comm.; Crimson Key; Harvard Alumni Assoc., Intern; Bach Society Orchestra; Volunteer at MGH/PBH...
...faraway realm rival clans play a brutal game called buzkashi, in which horsemen fight over a dead goat and drag its carcass across a finish line. Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bach-chan), noble chief of his clan, seems destined to win this fierce match, when the veil falls from the face of his main rival and--Allah be praised!--it is a beautiful woman, Benazir (Sridevi). What can our smitten hero do but let Benazir win the race and, to prove his love, lead his warriors in an ecstatic production number...