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...show off his work, Kyriakakis plays a recording of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. Then, via digital filtering, he drills down to specific instruments, as if microphones had been placed next to them. A digitized timpani track is stunningly realistic and intimate. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock dropped by recently to play with Kyriakakis' toys. He recorded a tune called Butterfly, in which flute notes dart about - left, right, up, down - like the insect's flight. "Stereo is too confining for my music," Hancock said. "It needs more space...
...meantime, Levin—who was already playing Mozart’s 21st piano concerto with the Handel and Haydn society at Symphony Hall Friday and Sunday—filled in, and performed to an enthusiastic crowd...
Meanwhile, Risinger said his scholarship will focus on his research of Georg Frederic Handel. Specifically, he plans to be involved with Harvard faculty on such projects as the upcoming complete publication of Handel's works in Germany...
...years, Harvard University Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly has guided undergraduates through the debut performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his popular core course, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances. This fall, Kelley made a debut of his own when his book, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances, was published by Yale University Press. Prof. Kelley recently sat down with The Crimson to discuss books, music and cybersex...
...think that any of these pieces got their best performance at their premiere. And they've now been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them as such. Other things are masterpieces because you can just look or listen and say, "This is a masterpiece." The Rite of Spring was hated at its premiere. But it was still a masterpiece then, in absolute terms...