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Emerging from two very separate traditions, Cecil Taylor's music is difficult to classify, beyond calling it sui generis. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Taylor draws deeply upon the twentieth-century European art music school of composers such as Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky. However, his professional experience from an early age came in the jazz world, the network of bars and nightclubs where the African-American musical idiom was being developed...
...have the somewhat dubious distinction of owning the entire discography of Midori on compact disc, from Bartok to her two recital collections. Naturally, for completion's sake, I picked up her latest offering on Sony Classical--a coupling of the Sibelius violin concerto and Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra providing the accompaniment...
...president of the Harvard Friends of the Spartacus Youth League, Eva S. Bartok '97, said "they will honor traditions of free speech at Harvard," Epps said...
Stravinsky's rhythms are followed by Bartok's harmonizations, then augmented by Shostakovich's wide intervals and sweeping string lines. Yoo's conducting was geared more towards entrances than anything else; what it lacked in expressiveness was gathered up by enthusiasm...
...hall was last Thursday's production of "Halos in Reverse" by the Demetirys Klein Dance Company, in residence at the Harvard Summer Dance Center. Last night, the building saw its first concert in many years--people gathered outside ahead of time to see the Harvard Chamber Orchestra perform Bach, Bartok, Handel and Stravinsky...