Word: levins
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Literature and Arts B-54, Prof. Robert Levin's course on chamber music from Mozart to Ravel, is fast becoming a Harvard classic. Less than two weeks after the first lecture, a frontpage article in this newspaper spoke of B-54's extraordinary oversubscription, its engaging concert/lecture format and the inspired pedagogue at its healm. All of which begs the question: what is Levin doing right...
...entertains. Levin plays the piano with the ease of a Gov-jock ranting about Enlightened Realism. And that's not all--he explicates the music as he plays, voice-over style, with such lucidity and grace that it appears his words are somehow part of the score...
...agree with Professor Levin's philosophy of art," says Nicholas T. Lopez '96. "Instead of using intellectualization as an end, he uses it as a means to understand the emotional and intuitive response one has to music...
...Levin, the opportunity to bring music to the people who might not learn about it otherwise is what makes teaching a large lecture worthwhile...
...took on a challenge when I decided to teach this course," Levin says. "Chamber music is seen as not being very accessible. People think it is only for those who really love music...