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...Here in HRO, I know that I fall into neither category of musician I mentioned above. In the future, this will not be my career. In the past, I never made it to All-State, let alone All-National Orchestra. And I never spent time at a serious summer music institute, except after my freshman year at Harvard when I worked in a dining hall at Tanglewood, actually serving some of the musicians I now play with...
...don’t think it’s really that I’m out of practice, though; I never was at their level. HRO humbles me. I am constantly envious of the people who can identify the obscure tune someone else is whistling. I have knowledge envy...
...orchestra. If anything, my desire for knowledge makes me love the experience even more. I feel as if, just by sitting on the same stage and playing the same music as people whose knowledge far outstrips mine, I at least gain some by osmosis. In their playing, HRO members leach out their musical knowledge in the form of emotion-filled performance. I sit there, a sponge, ready to take...
...when Dr. Y. touches his chest before beginning a piece, meaning “play it from the heart,” everyone in the orchestra already knows this. The HRO hoodie really says it all. The back of the shirt bears our semi-internal motto, “Love It. Want It.” And now that I’m part of this amazing group, I do both...
Jessica S. Zdeb ’04 is a history concentrator living in Adams House. She will try not to drool on her drums when HRO plays Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in March...