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...CCOE quintet that played in Sanders reflected Darweesh’s pan-hemispheric aesthetic. In addition to a violin and cello (played by Hanna Khoury and Kinan Abou-Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
...quintet launched into its first set of songs. Whereas Western composers sometimes write Arabic instruments or themes into their scores to lend them exotic “flavor,” Darweesh’s use of Western musical tropes is a true synthesis of styles. The violin and cello parts were not merely ornamental to their Arabic counterparts, but rather integral components of Darweesh’s sonic palette—Darweesh did not bridge the gap between Western and Arabic music, so much as he recombined elements from both traditions into a bold new aesthetic...
...Kashmir,” then launches into Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s Romanian folk dances. Haimovitz will perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre with special guest UCCELLO, an ensemble he formed with three of his cello students at McGill University. Eclecticism defines Haimovitz’s career. He had an early start: at 14 he soloed with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Without informing his management or family, he applied to Harvard and was accepted. He began developing a taste for modern music that further alienated him from...
...born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He spent most of his childhood in New York and began playing the cello at the age of four. Ma was already a renowned musician by the time he began his undergraduate education...
...private lessons. But for years, undergraduate musicians have bemoaned the lack of opportunities for performance training within the Harvard curriculum.According to Peter L. Anderegg ’04, an alumnus who graduated with a degree in Mathematics and is currently studying for a masters’ degree in cello performance at Juilliard, staying serious about music while at Harvard was possible, but took a lot of initiative and personal effort. “I found that it was certainly possible to maintain a serious level of playing while being a regular Harvard student; however these activities were entirely self-directed...