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...called up Carnegie Hall to propose the idea of an orchestra concert for children. By the end of a 20 minute conversation, they’d agreed...
Davis has spent her years at Harvard immersed in music. She is a full-time member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Bach Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and occasionally performs with other groups. She says her most rewarding performance was the Britten Serenade—a piece written for solo horn and voice—with...
Both Misono and Ryan say they are considering careers in conducting. Earlier this year, Ryan met former Bach Soc conductor Alan T. Gilbert ’89, who was in town to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
BOSTON PHILHARMONIC. The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Sanders to play pieces by Debussy, Chausson, Harbison, Saint-Saëns and Ravel. Just prior to the concert, a lecture by conductor Benjamin Zander, a former pupil of Benjamin Britten, a music commentator, and the author of The Art of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life, will offer a prefatory note on the music to follow. His lecture promises to be lively and passionate (it is said that two-thirds of the concert audience attends the lecture—a loyal following). Sunday, April 27. Lecture 1:45 p.m. Concert...
BACH SOC COMPETITION WINNER. The Bach Society Orchestra, directed by Sean H. Ryan ’03, presents Azura Rising, the winning submission in the 2003 Composition Competition, written by freshman Benjamin E. Green ’06. The Orchestra, Harvard’s only entirely student-run orchestra, will also play Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Ligeti’s Ramifications, Stravinsky’s Suite no. 1 for small orchestra, and Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo. Friday, April 25 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets $8 regular, $6 students, available at the Harvard...