Word: pianist
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...from “The Nutcracker.”The recital began with the strongest piece of the entire performance: a four-person modern work entitled “Satie Pieces,” choreographed by Jeffrey D. Edwards, a student at Harvard Medical School (HMS). HMS student and pianist Sharon F. Kuo played while Marie “Molly” M. Altenburg ’07, Lauren E. Chin ’08, Larissa D. Koch ’08, and Jordan C. Walker ’07 danced with a quiet grace and wonderfully controlled movements, reminiscent...
...often enough by night) Thomas Seyr works for his thuggish father as a "property manager." Realistically speaking that means brutally removing tenants and squatters from apartment buildings so they can be converted to more profitable uses. But he is haunted by the career he abandoned-as a promising concert pianist, which his mother also once was. It's an improbably melodramatic premise-Golden Boy reset in Paris-and also a remake of the American film Fingers. But that reckons without the canny direction of Jacques Audiard and the appealing work of Romain Duris as the muscle man-musician. His efforts...
...don’t think the rest of the public ever recognized this in him.” Other musicians spoke of his unique approach to composing music. “He wrote music of great complexity and great purity at the same time,” Pianist and long-time friend Russell Sherman said. “But even beyond the beauty of his pieces, the music is imperishable—it’s his character of devotion to his craft that is inimitable and really a model for all musicians.” Before teaching, Donald Martino...
...director of the Human Sexuality Program at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York. From his job description alone, it is clear that Kogan is a rare combination; he is a Harvard- (he graduated medical school in 1981) and Cornell-educated psychiatrist as well as an accomplished pianist who studied at Juilliard. He has starred in a DVD about the life and work of tormented musical genius Robert Schumann. But he is also a practicing and high-profile psychiatrist. To possess such a chimerical skill set is remarkable, but Kogan’s ability to meld such disparate disciplines...
According to Shira R. Brettman ’06, Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 is a brilliant pianist—the best at Harvard. He is also, she says, “a really belligerent drunk.” A concert pianist who has won high-level competitions and played all over the world, Yuan spent his freshman year studying at Julliard. But a visit to Harvard during the spring of that year made Yuan reconsider his options. “At Julliard I would get up at eight or nine, go practice, eat, have class, practice...