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From the Harvard Pops Orchestra's performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" to the Pforzheimen House screening of. First festival spanned the spectrum of art forms at Harvard last weekend...
...same time, Joseph I. Lin '00, theaccomplished violinist who has played with theBoston Symphony Orchestra, performed the BachSonata for solo violin in Adolphus Busch Hall...
Last week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed at the Roxbury Community College to celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...would otherwise normally not be exposed to classical music was commendable. Though it was sometimes hard to hear over the quiet buzz of audience chatter, especially with the acoustical downfalls of the athletic building, the casual concert setting could not detract from the magic of hearing a live professional orchestra...
...piece, while at the same time challenging the performers to smoothly transition from these solos into the more classical feel of the orchestral sections. Also in the second half of the performance the BSO invited some talented young musicians to perform with them: a children's choir joined the orchestra for Orff's "Carmina Burana" and several talented high school brass players came on stage for Respighi's "Pines of Rome...