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...Yamamoto displayed agility and attention to detail here, playing blistering lines with ease on the manuals and foot-pedals alike. This was certainly one of the finer moments of the evening.Harry Huff, the assistant organist and choirmaster of Memorial Church, took the bench then for a duet with cellist Aram V. Demirjian ’08, who is also the Musical Director of the Bach Society Orchestra. The two played “Procession Through a Black Hole” by Calvin Hampton. The piece certainly had an astral tone throughout, with Demirjian displaying his abilities on both...
...Silk Road Project’s second annual on-campus festival kicks off today, with a free concert and film screening that spotlight China’s influence on the arts. Eight years ago, cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 founded the project, which derives its name from the renowned trade route that traversed Asia. Its artistic and educational programs promote diversity and collaboration of cultural styles. The three-day festival this week, known as the “residency program” at Harvard, is part of the project’s five-year collaboration with...
Bong Ihn Koh ’08, a Cabot House resident from South Korea and a gifted cellist, was to make a journey next week to North Korea to perform in the Isang Yun World Peace concert, an event that would have brought together musicians from North and South Korea. But due to recent tensions generated by reports of a North Korean nuclear test last Monday, Koh will no longer be participating...
Though soft-spoken, Koh, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Cabot House, exudes passion and enthusiasm when he talks about Yun, a personal hero for the cellist. “Yun said, ‘You can express the world’s pain through music,’ which I believe in,” says Koh. Though born in South Korea, Koh did not encounter the music of Yun until his high school years in Berlin. It was after watching a documentary on Yun that Koh decided to champion the music of his fellow countryman...
Both his performance and choice of repertoire caught the attention of Yun’s widow as well as Siegfried Palm, the cellist for whom the concerto was originally written. Sooja Yun, who currently resides in North Korea, was so impressed that she personally recommended that Koh be the soloist in the upcoming festival...