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...native of Pittsburgh, Cai was an aspiring physician active in campus science and pre-medical groups. In addition to his academic pursuits, Cai was an accomplished violinist who played for the Mozart Society Orchestra and an English-language tutor for the Phillips Brooks House Association's Chinatown tutoring program...
Yannatos took over as music director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the fall of 1964. He vividly recalls his first concert with...
...very exciting. We did the Berlioz Overture, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, and the Bertoz Concerto for Orchestra that had just been written 20 years ago,” he says. “I didn’t think anything of the concert, but everyone else thought, ‘Wow.’ Everybody was blown away, and I guess, basically my job was assured...
...says. “He has brought such idealism to working with the cycle of young musicians ever renewing itself who come into Cambridge and play in the most incandescent and inspiring manner year in and year out and show people why the HRO is not only the oldest orchestra in America, but it is also at the very, very top of university orchestras anywhere. So his mark on this orchestra will be felt for a very long time...
...most of the students in the orchestra, the fact that they are in the orchestra throughout college even though they may not be planning on pursuing a professional career in music, it’s a sign that music will always be a part of our lives,” he says...