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...Gillis ’06 on the Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola & orchestra, KV364: Allegro Maestoso. Both soloists are prominent members of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. Aaron L. Berkowitz, a Ph.D. candidate in Music, who has played for such illustrious musicians as Misha Dichter and Joseph Kalichstein, will perform Piano Concerto No. 23, KV488: Adagio. Amanda Forsythe, soprano, will sing “Misera, dove son!,” KV369 with her silvery tone. Forsythe, who recently made her recital debut in New York, is a winner of the George London Foundation Awards...
...fully explained to her. After playing with the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Gutman was declined a visa to return to the United States the following year. She says she was told secretly that this restriction resulted from her support of two political dissidents and fellow Russian Jewish musicians, Misha Maisky and Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Gutman says she resisted the Soviet government’s insistence that she cut ties with her friends, and tells of a tense interview held with government authorities while she was pursuing her visa. “I said that if they think that...
...event for the 21st time, moderating as well as occasionally venturing into the stands to work the crowd. The show, Wylie said, “represents years and years of dedication on the part of the skaters.” The Evening’s founder, John Misha Petkevich ’71 stood up during the show to thank the audience and to remind them of the show’s goal to help fight childhood cancer. “To see young people here, who perhaps 30 years ago would not survive, this is the greatest gift...
...good cause and added that EWC is “very much a bonding activity. It builds House spirit.” The Eliot suite residents are each receiving free tickets to the show and a Nalgene bottle and t-shirt. EWC was started in 1970 when John Misha Petkevich ’71, a figure skater and former Eliot resident, met a group of children being treated for leukemia. Within a few weeks, he organized the first EWC, welcoming national figure skaters to perform at Harvard to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute...
...tingling explosion of anger, isolation, homesickness and ferocity. Any viewer not wiped out by this dance is hereby excused from the human race. For all its superpower simplifications, White Nights has discovered in Baryshnikov a keen and passionate movie hero. Giggle at the film's naivet; then feast on Misha and dance down the steppes. --By Richard Corliss