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During the summer of 2000, when renowned cellist Matthew W. Haimovitz ’96 could have toured with a symphony orchestra, he instead gave lessons to several young cellists, myself included, at a small music camp in the Berkshires. I remember the same man who played in Carnegie at age 13 ate on picnic benches with his students and played Bach for us in a barn. Today, Haimovitz is still willing to get his hands dirty to help people fall in love with classical music and he makes sure that everyone is welcome. Haimovitz’s approach...
...internationally popular cellist was, in the 1970s, forbidden from leaving the Soviet Union for nine years, under accusations of “serious acts against the government.” She says the reasons for her detainment were never fully explained to her. After playing with the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Gutman was declined a visa to return to the United States the following year. She says she was told secretly that this restriction resulted from her support of two political dissidents and fellow Russian Jewish musicians, Misha Maisky and Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Gutman says she resisted the Soviet...
...Delhi. Butler may be an academic force with a dedication to his thesis, but in typical Rhodes fashion, he is no bookworm. He has sung with the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College almost continuously since his freshman fall. He also played violin with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and volunteers regularly at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Butler was named a Harvard College Scholar for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. He plans to study Jurisprudence at Exeter College at Oxford. “I knew I wanted to study law in England and valued the small tutorial system at Oxford...
...music theory, composition, and history, Harvard’s Music Department only offers three performance-oriented courses: Music 180r: “Performance and Analysis,” Music 93r: “Supervised Reading and Research,” which is limited to members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), and Music 91r: “Supervised Reading and Research,” an independent-study course.A number of Harvard graduates, like Anderegg, have pursued careers in music during their time at the College. Yet such students have had to seek out their own teachers and resources...
...announced a halt to the intifadeh in February and Israel's tanks pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town in August. Ben Kingsley screened a version of Gandhi dubbed in Arabic to promote nonviolent resistance. The town's cinema - the only one in the West Bank - reopened, and musicians founded a school to teach classical Arabic music in Ramallah's Old City. Even as the town...