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...MUSIC | HRO...
...senior in high school, I wondered whether playing the horn might provide a fulfilling career and, though I’ve since abandoned that notion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) provides me with as fulfilling a musical experience as I could hope for outside of a conservatory. Sitting in the horn section, I see the mix of musicians that makes the experience so rewarding. The aspiring professionals from whom I can learn so much sit beside both those who consider HRO only an extracurricular activity and those who, like myself, find in HRO a mix of serious musical training...
...Library seemed so imposing. The darkness envelopes me as I stroll through the cold toward Leverett, and, for once, the yard is completely quiet, save for footsteps of passersby. Music still plays within my head, but a softer tune, muted by the distance between the present moment and the HRO rehearsal that just ended. The third movement of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony, with its soaring, romantic violin strains, makes the chilly walk warmer...
...Classical music lacks the words which give such power to the other music which shapes my day, but the walk home from HRO always reminds me of why, 12 years ago, the desire to make some never-before-heard sound come out of a twisted mass of brass so captivated me. A symphony offers more than a single song, as it combines multitudes of emotions into one creation which both the musician and listener can shape into different messages from time to time. While the Tchaikovsky evokes passion, the Debussy piano solos I listen to every night as I fall...
Misono has been officially endorsed by Ethan L. Gray ’05, president-elect of HRO. Other musical groups on campus, including the Harvard Piano Society, Harvard Organ Society and Harvard Pops Orchestra, have forwarded information about him to their members...