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...asked them to consider the broader context of the music, "both in terms of the piece and in terms of the composer and the context of the time," said James Wannatos, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...American Repertory Theater, CityStep and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra all donated prizes for participants who raised the most money and finished the walk first...
Kotova is scheduled to make her New York City debut this Saturday at Carnegie Hall, where she will play Tchaikovsky's showy Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, followed by a barnstorming tour that takes her all the way from Brazil to Japan. Though she already seems well launched toward stardom, anyone who expects her to take the low road to popular acclaim is in for a surprise. "I am asked so many times," she says, "what do you think, that classical music is dead, dead, dead? Not at all. It's starting to bloom again...
...When I interviewed you in college, you said, "Writing a column doesn't mean I can write a novel. That's like saying I won the gold medal for diving, so I think I'll play violin for the orchestra." Justify...
...musical odyssey began early. My father, a trumpet player in the People's Liberation Army, began teaching me when I was 14. My tastes were strictly classical. In 1981 I joined the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and played in it for seven years. Things began to change in 1985, though, when the group Wham! gave a concert in Beijing. A year later, I heard my first Beatles tape. I learned to play an electric guitar. After that 1986 concert, I formed a band and made rock my life...