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While other students were writing response papers last night, Joseph I. Lin '00 performed a violin concerto before a crowd of 5,000 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...each Harvard Commencement, the Boston Pops Orchestra holds a Harvard night where an alumni plays with the orchestra...
...this year, when the scheduled alumni cancelled the gig, the group contacted the music department and heard Lin play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which won him first place in last year's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concerto competition...
...muted trumpet on Work Song, a track on The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. The notes almost seem to form words. The four-minute selection is from Black, Brown and Beige, a three-hour work exploring the history of blacks in America. "Our aim as a dance orchestra," Ellington once wrote, "is not so much to reproduce 'hot' or 'jazz' music, as to describe emotions, moods and activities, which have a wide range...
Most of what passes for pop swing these days is content simply to give off heat. Retro acts like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies create swing that owes more to rock than jazz; it's propelled by attitude, sometimes fueled by electric guitars and focused more on excitement than enlightenment. Much of today's pop swing is also burdened by irony--many acts seem to be sending the genre up even as they get down...