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...bizarre work has been shown in museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney in New York. His 2007 piece, “Blossom,” is a 15-foot tall reconstruction of a tree whose trunk penetrates and supports a life-size piano; this oddity is characteristic of Biggers’ large installation pieces, which have touched on subjects ranging from the state of hip-hop to Eastern mysticism...
...Harvard graduates Larissa D. Koch ’08 and Claudia F. Schreier ’09, both of whom are currently pursuing careers as professional choreographers, are returning to stage two pieces for “Momentum.” Schreier’s work will feature live piano accompaniment and inventive costuming. In a similarly unique fashion, Koch—who performed with HBC throughout her undergraduate career and currently directs her own dance company—has collaborated with electroacoustic specialist and Harvard Music Professor Hans Tutschku to create a piece tailored to Tutschku?...
Walking into the home, a center hall greets you with rows of stairs climbing up three stories and a living room and dining room square off the sides of the space. We venture into the living room, the more formal of the family spaces. A piano sits to the right and several guitars are set up on the other side of the room, which his sons love to play...
...concert the audience had a chance to experience firsthand the multicultural themes explored by the Silk Road Ensemble. Ma, Russian violinist Jonathan Gandelsman, and pianist Charlie Albright ’11, performed the second movement, “Pantoum,” of Maurice Ravel’s piano trio. The piece is usually associated with the Western classical tradition but, as Ma explained, Malaysian dance forms heavily influenced Ravel during his attendance of the World’s Exhibition in Paris in 1889.Later, six other undergraduates joined the Silk Road Ensemble to play music of Turkmen, Armenian, and Yiddish...
...their austere plucking into any grander themes, as the best selections from previous albums have managed to do. On 2004’s “I’d Rather Dance With You,” still their most perfectly crafted pop song to date, a stair-stepping piano outro elevates a jaunty beat to perfection; on 2001’s “I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From,” a gorgeous, transcendental violin solo strikes up around the three-minute mark. Every song on “Declaration...