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...polished performance in Paine Music Hall. The group premiered “Gilded Glass,” a piece composed especially for the group by Elizabeth C. Lim ’08, before playing two relatively obscure pieces: Igor Stravinsky’s “Concerto for String Orchestra in D” and Antonin Dvorak’s “Serenade for Strings.” It became apparent by the end of the evening that the group should have a larger draw. Now in their eleventh year, the unassuming Brattle Street Chamber Players perform without...
...month ago, American diplomats, journalists and sundry high-ranking North Korean officials sat together in a concert hall in Pyongyang, listening to the New York Philharmonic orchestra perform for the first time in the communist capital. Television audiences around the globe caught snippets of the televised event and saw a friendlier side to the least understood nation in the world...
...Congress. Roach walked at its head, alongside Ireland's ambassador to China, Declan Kelleher; a traditional bagpiper; and County-cork born Beijing local Shane O'Neill, whose leprechaun costume purchased at a Dublin shop came complete with a false belly. The trailing marchers included members of the Dublin Youth Orchestra, the local youth Irish dance troupe "The Celtic Dragons," and the chorus from the Bai Nian Vocational School, a free school that serves the children of migrant workers and to which the Irish embassy has donated a language lab. Bedecked in green, orange, and violet, giddy participants proudly carried...
Last Friday, the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra rang in Leap Day with a dazzling showcase of talent that featured their own members, as well as two guests: composer Elizabeth C. Lim ’08 and pianist Charlie Albright ’11. Music director Aram Demirjian ’08 led the orchestra with great poise, but Albright stole the show when he led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”—a notoriously difficult piece—with great polish and professionalism. The evening began with Igor...
Which is to say, the next hit musical that will attract a younger, more diverse audience than the relatively homogeneous (older, upscale, largely white) folks who usually fill the orchestra seats. It's a crowd that Broadway has been chasing for years. Hair was the first show to really tap into the sensibility and musical tastes of a young generation, and plenty of musicals since then have tried to bring rock (or at least rocklike) music to the land of Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman. None, however, were as successful as Rent, which has grossed more than $280 million...