Word: dobrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shoshana R. Dobrow '97 also terms student-Faculty contact inadequate. She recommends making Core classes smaller so students have more close contact with professors, explaining that she has enjoyed her seminar courses the most...
...there was a music performance concentration, I probably would have concentrated in it," says Shasa R. Dobrow '97, a bassoon player in Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) who decided to concentrate in biological anthropology instead...
Soloist Shoshana "Shasa" Dobrow '97 won HRO's Concerto Competition with the piece and it must be a godsend for a bassoonist--there's not much opportunity to shine with the instrument. Probably the best-known bassoon writing is Stravinsky's, such as the solo that begins "The Rite of Spring;" but Stravinsky produces a plaintive, wailing tone which is far from Weber's classical vocabulary...
Certainly, Dobrow handled the piece expertly and her tone improved as it went on--or, perhaps, the ear became accustomed to what the bassoon should sound like. But she was hampered by a fairly uninteresting piece and her technique was probably better appreciated by those more familiar with the instrument and its limitations. Again, however, the audience was wildly appreciative, as the fluorescent "SHASA" sign that dangled from the balcony proved...