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...DIED. Leonid Hambro, 86, brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...
...Darker Side, WHRB’s hip-hop department. Cooper is also a Crimson editor.“The in-studio performances will be just one more way in which WHRB can spread musical diversity on campus,” says Steve Lin ’08, pianist and vocalist for the student rock band The Dharma Seals.—Staff writer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...depths of “Dividing Day,” a Guettel masterpiece from his recent Broadway musical, “The Light in the Piazza,” adding anger to the melancholy of Tony-winner Victoria Clark’s original interpretation. The song features jazz pianist Fred Hersch, who balances harmonic tension and melodic release, an appropriately unsettling touch to a song that chronicles a loveless marriage: “I can see the winter in your eyes, telling me, / ‘Go now, we did it, you curtsied, I bowed. / We are together...
...green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
...never heard Big Band jazz before, it hits him like something he has always known. He thinks, "That's it. That's going to be my life." And for the next three decades or so, it is--sort of. After studying music in college, he becomes a busy pianist, saxophonist and arranger at Disney theme parks and Hollywood studios, with a five-year interlude as musical director for Johnny Mathis. He wins three Emmys for scoring TV cartoons and starts getting assignments for mainstream movies like Con Air and Armageddon...