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...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 the low and high...
...Suite for Orchestra No. 1. With a program that also included Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”), the orchestra demonstrated their facility with a range of musical styles. Music Director Aram V. Demirjian ’08 proved himself to be an excellent conductor, beyond his archetypal shock of hair—think Seji Ozawa—with his confident and expressive leadership. Flanked by a full string section, two oboes and a bassoon, the harpsichord—unusual at Harvard concerts?...
...concert opened with a new face under the new Music Director-elect Aram V. Demirjian...
...Demirjian brought clear and graceful command to the podium, although the orchestra was not always able to match his elegance...
...story follows the extremely likable anti-hero Macheath (Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into our hearts. His life intersects those of the miserly Mr. and Mrs. Peachum (Nathan Troup and Tracy Reynolds) the resentful prostitute Jenny Diver (Karoun A. Demirjian ’03), and the corrupt cop Tiger Brown (Nicholas N. Commins ’09) and his daughter Lucy (Kathleen A. Stetson ’03), but these characters are all colorful peripherals to the central character and story of Macheath. Maybe the dominance of Macheath is only...