Word: pianist
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired HBO; June 9; 9 p.m. E.T. The 1977 conviction of director Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) for sex with a minor was the very model of modern media circuses. Marina Zenovich uses archival and new interviews to show how the court and press made an example of the (admittedly guilty) filmmaker. A thoughtful look at celebrity, justice and the incompatibility...
...you’re in a hip café in Davis Square, the reality is that you only need to head up Garden Street to Hilles to experience this artful musical experiment, Acoustic Tuesdays. Marcus G. Miller ’08, who performs at nearly every Acoustic Tuesday with pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, describes the event as a venue that “creates a greater atmosphere of student creativity on campus.” Miller, who has been playing the saxophone since the age of nine and performing in gigs since age 13, says Acoustic...
...musician and as a scientist. Koh will open his performances in Arts First festival with Bach’s sixth suite, from which he played as a freshman in the commencement ceremony of 2006. He will play two double-concertos, one by Bach and one by Vivaldi. Joined by pianist Nora I. Bartosik ’08, he will close his four-show run with Beethoven’s first sonata, the piece that made him start playing cello. And after how far he has come, how fitting is it that he return to his beginnings...
Fortunately, Miller didn’t completely lose touch with his music. After his junior summer he realized how integral it was to his life and reprioritized so as to be able to devote himself to it. He started performing around campus with pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10. He also picked up a gig in New York, where he plays from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. every Monday before catching a 7 a.m. bus back for his Tuesday morning classes...
...money, no direction, no promises,” Golson said. “But it’s an art form that refuses to die, because all of us who are engaged in it are driven.”As a 15-year-old kid in Philadelphia, Golson and pianist Ray Bryant started off in a 15-piece band that had a simple, rough sound and played some gigs on the weekends. Golson recounted the story of their first gig: the leader of the group called and told Golson and Bryant the gig was cancelled, but in reality...