Word: fujimotoã
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While Harvard proved a safe haven for Fujimoto, back home in Seattle things were not so tranquil for Japanese-Americans. Three months after Pearl Harbor, Fujimoto??€™s family was given orders to abandon its home and business and prepare to be moved into an internment camp, along with the vast majority of all other Japanese on the West Coast...
...Fujimoto??€™s parents were finally allowed to leave Minidoka concentration camp and travel east to Chicago, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Fujimoto, meanwhile, went onto graduate school in chemistry at University of Michigan—an all-expenses fellowship...
...dragged on, some of Fujimoto??€™s Michigan classmates began to worry about the possibility of being drafted to fight. In desperation, a few of them even went so far as to apply to the mysterious “Manhattan Project...
...that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony was the low point. It is complex and intellectually demanding music which requires sensitive leadership and a fully engaged orchestra. Yet Fujimoto??€™s on-stage relationship with her players rarely moved beyond metronomic. The sound was fractured and flat, the structure confused, and some of Mozart’s most fascinating music sounded little more than boring. The group of soloists all played admirably. Kathryn E. Andersen...
...greatest composer in the history of the universe. Such a man deserves quite a birthday celebration and this year marks his 250th anniversary. Accordingly, this Friday, from 8-10 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall, the Mozart Society Orchestra—under the baton of distinguished conductor and singer Akiko Fujimoto??€”is prepared to do him justice with a special birthday concert in which they will present his best-known works as performed by some of Harvard’s finest. The distinguished ensemble will accompany Kathryn E. Andersen ’07 and Brendan J. Gillis...
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