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...performance and something isn't right. Sitting at a grand piano in St. George's concert hall in Bristol, England, on May 12, Derek Paravicini tears through a rehearsal of The Flight of the Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...learning disabled; he can't tie his own shoelaces or butter a piece of bread. Yet his musical gifts appear almost unlimited. With rehearsals over, Paravicini and his longtime teacher Adam Ockelford go into a quiet room to listen to a recording of the version of Bumblebee that the orchestra has learned. A few hours later, in front of 400 people, Paravicini and the Emerald Ensemble charge through a dizzying performance of the music he has just listened to, perfectly in sync. By the end of Paravicini's first live classical performance, the audience is on its feet...
...story, so Ockelford has told it for him. In his book, In the Key of Genius, published May 3, Ockelford recounts the extraordinary story of Paravicini's bizarre early lessons, his TV appearances and his concerts for charity (one at Buckingham Palace, another with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra) and ends with him playing Scott Joplin's The Entertainer to 12,000 people in Las Vegas last year. Paravicini, who is related through marriage to Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, was only 5 years old when he and Ockelford first met. Ockelford was giving a piano lesson...
Since receiving a tiny violin as a birthday present when he was four years old, Stefan P. Jackiw ’07 has come a long way. Not only has he been a featured soloist with countless orchestras—from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra—but he is also about to make his debut this summer with the prestigious New York Philharmonic. With these impressive accomplishments under his belt, Jackiw was an easy choice for the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. The award recognizes exceptional artistic talent and is sponsored...
While the Holden Choirs and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) are known for grand productions on their own, their combined performance for Arts First weekend will be enormous by any standard. The presentation of Mahler’s famed “Symphony No. 2” will mark the first time since 2003 that HRO and the Holden Choirs (the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Radcliffe Choral Society) have worked together. “We’re legendarily the sort of ‘big bang’ of Arts First, and this...