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HARVARD POPS ORCHESTRA. The Pops perform theme music from the silver screen in “Pops Goes to the Movies.” Saturday, March 1 at 8 pm. Tickets $10, $7 for students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall...
BACH AND HAYDN: MUSICAL OFFERINGS FIT FOR A KING. An instrumental ensemble from the Handel and Haydn Orchestra plays landmark works written for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. With Grant Llewellyn, directing J.S. Bach’s The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Super Thema Reale) and Haydn’s “Emperor” String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3. Saturday, March 1 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$56, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
Regardless, it’s clear that the downtempo rock ballad is Ashcroft’s specialty—and for good reason. Few rock artists can so effectively wield an orchestra as thematic element, and even fewer have (as Ashcroft has done) managed to compose memorable instrumental lines that utterly complement the vocals...
...first year playing in elementary school, I started private lessons and found through music a world so much bigger than my small Connecticut town. Auditions took me as an eleven-year-old to New York City and then to California to play in the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, where I first felt the thrill of leading a section and playing ensemble music that mimicked my parents’ classical records. The sound was almost more exciting to me than the fact that our concert would be nationally televised on the Disney channel...
...senior in high school, I wondered whether playing the horn might provide a fulfilling career and, though I’ve since abandoned that notion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) provides me with as fulfilling a musical experience as I could hope for outside of a conservatory. Sitting in the horn section, I see the mix of musicians that makes the experience so rewarding. The aspiring professionals from whom I can learn so much sit beside both those who consider HRO only an extracurricular activity and those who, like myself, find in HRO a mix of serious musical training...