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Bach Society Orchestra--Diana Watt, music director; Jessica Krash, piano soloist; music of Rossini, Beethoven, Ives and Haydn; Sanders Theater...
Moving off campus is just one of the ways Krash adjusted the musical situation here to fit her needs. When she discovered that taking fewer than four courses a year--to create more practice time--would mean paying an extra year's tuition, she simply took an entire year off. When she found the Music Department "unmusical and unintellectual," she created her own concentration. "The Philosophy and Psychology of Music." And when she discovered that music professors were unresponsive to her complaints about poor facilities and anti-performance attitudes, she decided to form a coalition of Harvard musicians...
...Krash believes that the problems of piano playing at Harvard go far beyond a lack of facilities. "Of course there should be more pianos, of course the music building should be open past ten o'clock." But the real problem, she says, is attitude. "The Music Department could really be an advocate of performance, but instead professors say to me. 'Oh, you probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none...
...Krash joins the chorus of Harvard pianists who bemoan the inaccessibility of the Music Department's new Bosendorfer grand (believed by some to be the finest brand of piano in the world today). Only professors and graduate composition classes are allowed to use the instrument, which is kept locked up at all times. "The department seems to feel that instruments somehow get used up if you play them," she says. "Of course they deteriorate just as quickly if you don't play them...
...Krash, however, is not wholly negative about her experience here. Harvard, she says, allows one to "get out of circulation in the competitive music world--you lose your class rank, which is great, although you also lose some perspective." She notes that Houses eagerly invite musicians to give recitals, which are relaxed and informal...