Word: musician
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Knights are rare enough these days, but add the labels of composer, musician, and conductor to that honor and the combination becomes practically unheard of. But Sir André Previn, who was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996, has just these distinctions. As a guest at Harvard this past Monday, Previn shared personal insights about music as well as anecdotes and advice with the community in an intimate setting.A crowd of approximately 80 people gathered in the Kirkland Junior Common Room for a master class with Previn as part of the Learning From Performers series sponsored...
...with a degree in mechanical engineering, became interested in designing medical devices during his junior year of college when he joined a team trying to help a saxophonist suffering from focal hand dystonia. (The neurological condition causes the hand to contract involuntarily, making it impossible for the musician to play his instrument.) “We wanted to design something that would help him get back to his former playing level,” Derse said. “After going through a few prototypes, we created a glove braced with three pieces of steel that held his fingers...
...first woman to conduct a mainstage production with the San Francisco Opera summarized her career path on Friday with a quote from Harvard Musician in Residence Isaiah A. Jackson III ’66: “You can’t plan the important things.” Hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center and co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna...
...approach to recommendations. MyMusic's solution is simpler, and far better, I think: it lets you know what your friends are listening to. Like Facebook, MySpace has a news feed, which figures out which of your friends interests you most and communicates their doings to you. So, if my musician brother Seth Augustus (a stage name) adds an interesting tune to his playlist, my news feed will report that. I can even subscribe to his playlists...
...great thing about being a musician in an age of digital communications, though, is that local obscurity is no barrier to international recognition. Indonesians don't give them a second look, but a buzz about the band - whose sultry, slow-burning trip-hop invites comparisons with Goldfrapp or Portishead - has gently percolated around the region, thanks to a well-tended MySpace presence, Channel V airplay and the fact that Yohanna mostly sings in English...