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Friday, April 22. “Bach Society Orchestra with Bradley Balliett.” Paine Hall. 8 p.m. $8; students and seniors. $6 Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...would rather be playing for the people who are amazed by it,” says bassoonist Brad R. Balliett ’05. “My ideal audience member would be someone who doesn’t necessarily know very much about classical music but is excited about it, and listening to it very attentively to get all the details. Those are the people who are going to be moved...
...pretentious, stuffy experts that classical music seems to be associated with are far less desirable to Balliett, who has an offer to join the Civic Orchestra of Chicago upon graduation...
...people, not necessarily at Harvard, who have a very narrow-minded view, who think that if people don’t know that you’re not supposed to clap between movements then they shouldn’t go to concerts,” Balliett says. “I think that’s ridiculous. You have to ask them, why are you performing? Are you just playing for each other? You could do that in your dorm room—you don’t need to rent Sanders Theater...
According to Balliett, the problem does not rest exclusively on the shoulders of the disinterested audience—classical musicians who resist modernization should share the blame. Traditionalists have stigmatized modern orchestral music, he says, leaving only a limited canon of work that classical groups can choose from...