Word: musicalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your work with MTV and music video production/direction contributed to this impression...
...could be said that I am one of the earliest, and probably the earliest, music video producer/director in China. I didn't know anything about the industry at first, but at the time I was working with a musician friend, the composer and rock-star, Cui Jian, the Chinese counterpart of John Lennon. I was a huge fan of his music, and it was his wish that I help direct his video. I realized that the money that I made from these music videos could go toward funding my films, not a bad situation...
...violist playing with the Bach Society, the Harvard Early Music Society and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (where she is also orchestra manager), Aara has a very crowded musical agenda. However, she found some time between rehearsals to chat with us about the history of the bells and her recent experience as their ringer. The Lowell House bells were given to Harvard in 1930 by Richard T. Crane. They had hung in the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow, but when they were sentenced to the melting-pot, Crane purchased them from the Soviet government and shipped them to America. At that...
...around with any comprehensive knowledge of their playing. The bells are tuned to an eastern scale, supposedly a mixture of Byzantine and Tartar influences, which, to the Western ear gives their carillons a haunting and unfamiliar sound. No one here is quite sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells as a playable instrument. Her performances hinge on improvisation and experience. Though she and the other ringers have gradually become adept in the bells' individual utterances, no tune...
...despite the aesthetic mystery of their pealing, the Lowell House bells embody something visceral and powerful that falls altogether outside the realm of music. Standing high above Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience. The 17 bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside...