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...fated to distance himself from the game he loved as a kid. Coming into Harvard in 1999, Noffsinger was a fantasy baseball aficionado with Little League experience and not much else. He found his niche on campus as an applied math and economics concentrator and with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...elevator dial to hint at their true locations, a fact that becomes significant in the relationship between Plumb and Maggie. Furthermore, the actors’ make-up, while well conceived, sometimes seems obviously artificial even from a far viewing distance. Additionally, the lack of a full combo or orchestra limits the score’s liveliness. By no means is the work itself perfect. The lines are occasionally predictable, and the meter and rhyme of the songs are sometimes awkward. But just as Mr. Plumb redeems itself for its other shortcomings, these faults are more than compensated...
Collins is thrilled about the newfound camaraderie, and his enthusiasm appears to be reciprocated—every time he starts his mid-rehearsal speech, the orchestra shouts “Hi Jimbo!” in unison. Although he has been in HRO since the beginning of freshman year, his musical career at Harvard began with a smattering of posters calling for hip young gunslingers to join him in a rock band—pretty unorthodox for a guy who would later become president of the biggest classical group on campus...
Only a handful of HRO members go on to careers in music every year, Yannatos says, and most people put the orchestra second to their academics...
Still, they take their music extremely seriously, as the behemoth Hindemith symphony they play after the intermission attests. The audience erupted into a standing ovation as the last note rang out, and after several rounds of bowing, the orchestra left the stage. Collins says he was thrilled with the performance, adding with a smile that, despite the initial stumbles, he was never really worried...