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Classical Persian music and poetry filled the oak-paneled Eliot Library last night as over 60 students and community members celebrated the Noruz, the Iranian New year.
After dinner, the crowd moved to the Eliot House library to listen to classical Persian music played on the santoor (a dulcimer-like instrument) and donbak (drums). Audience members also heard a recitation of Persian poetry and a lecture by Mashots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell on the...
The Trio of the third movement revealed the Borromeo's only substantial weakness. When the texture of this classical work thinned to only one or two instruments, the players failed to fill the space left by the tuttis. Despite the intimacy of these solo and quasi-solo sections, the instruments...
McBride's roots are in soul music. At eight he taught himself bass, playing along to Stax and James Brown records at home in Philadelphia. Arriving at Juilliard at 17, he studied jazz and classical bass. But his education really began a year later, he says, when he dropped out...
An avid proponent of new music, Fisk brought works ranging from Scarlatti to Rochberg to his program. In doing so, he demonstrated the guitar's unique position as a middle ground between the harpsichord and the violin; the guitar's strings are plucked like the harpsichord's, but it has...