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...deciding about his future as a musician and as a scientist. Koh will open his performances in Arts First festival with Bach’s sixth suite, from which he played as a freshman in the commencement ceremony of 2006. He will play two double-concertos, one by Bach and one by Vivaldi. Joined by pianist Nora I. Bartosik ’08, he will close his four-show run with Beethoven’s first sonata, the piece that made him start playing cello. And after how far he has come, how fitting is it that he return...
HALLE, GERMANY Lost organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach is discovered...
...displayed his talent for his instrument and his deep understanding of the music written for it. “Music has a wonderful way of expressing the inner life of somebody or a people,” he said. He reserved particular praise for Bach, whose “Prelude to the First Suite” was the first piece Ma learned. “Bach had a wonderful way of expressing the infinite,” he said before treating the audience to a performance of the piece, which he learned at age four. After the performance, Ma asked...
Last Friday, the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra rang in Leap Day with a dazzling showcase of talent that featured their own members, as well as two guests: composer Elizabeth C. Lim ’08 and pianist Charlie Albright ’11. Music director Aram Demirjian ’08 led the orchestra with great poise, but Albright stole the show when he led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”—a notoriously difficult piece—with great polish and professionalism. The evening began with Igor...
...lead, have lapsed either into a reflexive philistinism or George Will’s poseurish pomposity. Buckley only could maintain this balance because he understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving a proper conservative’s deference...