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...winners of a national unsigned-band competition, they will soon fly to Los Angeles to record a whole CD—two by the acoustic singer/songwriter/label president Zaccagnino, one by the jazz group Modern Music Collective, one by Jamie B. Fordyce ’05—an acoustic guitar player who plays mostly instrumentals—and one track by Amy M. Zelcer ’07 (jazz vocalist and winner of the 2004 Harvard Idol competition...
Complaints of inadequate music opportunities at Harvard are nothing new. Zaccagnino mentions that even in the late 19th century “there was the first real musician club at Harvard—the Guitar and Mandolin Club (which later became the Instrumental Clubs). This club represented the students who were doing new things—playing non-classical music, and not studying music at the University. While the professors interested in music thought that the music these students were playing was inferior to classical music, they nevertheless recognized that these students were some of the most talented...
...know all about sax players,” the smiling songwriter said. “Sax players are only comfortable in a couple of keys, and those are bad for guitar. You can make a big mistake playing with the horn player.” He added that he preferred literary discussions to musical collaborations when it came to the man from Hope...
...artist rolls his eyes,’” he meta-narrated. “There’s a reason John [Kerry] has never taken his guitar out in front of me. He skis with me, because I’m bad,” Stills said...
...crazy?” he exclaimed upon being asked which kind of performance he preferred. “There’s nothing cooler than getting in front of a lot of people and playing the dogshit out of a guitar...