Word: hro
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According to Collins, who campaigned for president under a platform of making HRO more social, the orchestra has a unique, constantly evolving dynamic uncommon to most professional-class classical groups. Everybody is friends with each other, Collins says, and orchestra members usually hang out together after rehearsals, either watching movies or going to the Kong as a massive group...
...stiff, classical outlook on things,” Collins says. “We’ll laugh at things, and we’ll have a good time. We’re pretty serious during rehearsals, but people can really get into it. A lot of people on HRO will hang out together, party together, and there is a kind of solidarity within the group...
Collins is thrilled about the newfound camaraderie, and his enthusiasm appears to be reciprocated—every time he starts his mid-rehearsal speech, the orchestra shouts “Hi Jimbo!” in unison. Although he has been in HRO since the beginning of freshman year, his musical career at Harvard began with a smattering of posters calling for hip young gunslingers to join him in a rock band—pretty unorthodox for a guy who would later become president of the biggest classical group on campus...
Only a handful of HRO members go on to careers in music every year, Yannatos says, and most people put the orchestra second to their academics...
...think, largely, HRO is something people do on the side,” says Jae Y. Kim ’05, who shares the first violin seat with Dickerman...