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...serious student conductors at Harvard, opportunities to lead an orchestra are rare—and that’s what makes the Bach Society Orchestra (Bach Soc) so special...
Founded in 1898 as the Musical Club of Harvard University and reformed as a chamber orchestra in 1954, Bach Soc is led each season by an undergraduate who selects the repertoire, runs rehearsals and conducts all the performances. For a young conductor, it’s perhaps as close as it gets to music directing a full-sized chamber orchestra...
...PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. The Harvard University Choir and The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra will perform Bach’s “The Passion According to St. John.” Bach’s rendering of Jesus’ final days and subsequent Easter Resurrection is a vivid and dramatic account of the well-known Gospel. Featured solists will include Thomas Gregg, Richard Benefield, Shannon Larkin, Suzanne Ehly and Donald Wiklinson. The evening will also include a brief address by the highly regarded Reverend Gomes. Free.Friday, April 18 at 8 p.m. The Memorial Church...
TECHNOLOGY-INFUSED TUNES. Classical music is intertwined with technology when the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) showcases its unique stylings. The performances is a continuation of the series “Who’s afraid of technology?” and is hosted by Gil Rose, the conductor of BMOP. Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. Ticekts $10. Club Passim, 47 Palmer...
...played cello in a school orchestra in fourth grade, but then in fifth grade, they switched orchestra to the recess period. So I switched to band to save my recess and started playing drums. I got a set of drums for Christmas the next year and it was all downhill from there. So I’ve been making noise for eight years...