Word: musician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone asks you this question, you're either a) an engineering sciences concentrator or b) a serious classical musician...
...sounds youmake will hit your audience in a thousanddifferent ways. Could you hope for as much withthe better informed but narrower spectrum oflisteners in any musical establishment?" asks Kim.Exposure to personal diversity is one advantageHarvard holds over any conservatory's studentbody. Salvage delineates this advantageous linkbetween audience and musician, saying, "Peoplehere are fascinating and driven. So many know somuch about so many different things, that theinteraction is amazingly refreshing--and alsogreatly beneficial to music making...
Faculty members like Risinger, Dr. Robert Levinand Dr. John Stewart, who helped Lawless tounderstand that "being a musician does notnecessarily mean alienating oneself from otherdisciplines," also illuminate and lend credibilityto Harvard's music department. Additionally, thereis always the option of taking a semester off ordeferring admission entirely. Cellist Jennifer Lee'01, who deferred admission for a year to study ata conservatory in Germany, found the "depth of themusic world of Europe unbelievable." Yet shereturned to Harvard because she felt that sheneeded "something more, "even if it meant leavingher professor thinking that she "came here tobecome an egghead...
...never heard of--or Boyz II Men. The lack of relaxing music, like something from the Beatles or the Grateful Dead, was disturbing. I was nervous. Boyz II Men it was, though I couldn't stop thinking about the inane concept of Michael Bolton as a jazz musician...
...Government Center T-stop, Bob Kerr, aveteran street musician, is eager to take a breakfrom the microphone to share some stories of hislife. And what a life it is. Bob, by his ownadmittance, is a jack of all trades, dabbling inlandscaping, telecommunications, teachingharmonica, and exposing the corruption of cellphone carries in an upcoming Internet publication.Becoming increasingly animated with each anecdotethat pops into his head, Bob is no doubt eager tocapitalize on an audience that, for once, isn'tjust passively tuning in while waiting for thetrain...