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Another shared sentiment of the festival revolved around the bittersweet aspect of the celebration. Lester C. Kim '11 said that he was saddened by the loss of Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted but was also enthusiastic about the chance to meet the new Masters...
...will be picky, for sure,” said Matthias C. Wickenburg ’13. Similarly, Lester C. Kim ’11 referred to love as a “serious game, and there are winners and there are losers...
...Connor, who plays the mandolin, notes that bluegrass is one of the few subsets of American folk music that was largely pioneered by one person. Mandolin player Bill Monroe formed the Blue Grass Boys in 1939, and was later joined by banjoist Earl Scruggs and singer/guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass, whose instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass, and fiddle, emerged as a kind of commercially disseminated folk music a decade later. It then began to permeate early rock music in unexpected ways: the offbeat mandolin chop characteristic of bluegrass music, for example, eventually evolved into the snare-drum offbeat...
...Saturday’s performance, Thomas Everett, Director of Bands at Harvard, paid homage to Ho’s unique sound, likening him to other jazz greats whose personalities and musical voices were inseparable. “You heard one note—Lester Young—and that was his voice,” Everett declared. “I hear the same thing in Fred’s baritone.” Ho’s playing is aggressive, sharp, often filled with wailing shrieks and guttural burps, but it always remains expansive and lyrical...
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