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Since Summers’ departure, the University has moved in that direction. While the President’s Office paid for last year’s spring concert, featuring the piano-pop virtuoso Ben Folds, the College footed the bill for this spring’s Third Eye Blind performance. Both events attracted thousands of undergraduates to the Yard...
...always admired him - and well before Amadeus. But of late he's about all I want to listen to. I come home from a screening, weary and faboobled, pop a Mozart recording in the machine - you really must get Murray Perahia's boxed set of all the piano concertos and enter into bliss. I don't know a thing about music and don't understand my Mozartian passion, but the other night I decided to see as well as hear his sublimities, and so decided to play the DVD of a film called In Search of Mozart, which someone...
...keyboard. Born 14 weeks premature, he weighed only 700 g and his heart stopped three times before the doctors could stabilize him. An irregular flow of oxygen through a tube left him blind and brain damaged. Unable to communicate verbally, the young Paravicini taught himself to play the piano and let the music do the talking. His first song was the Irish folk tune Molly Malone, one of his nanny's favorites, hammered out on a battered electric organ. He was two years...
...Pops Orchestra) and ends with him playing Scott Joplin's The Entertainer to 12,000 people in Las Vegas last year. Paravicini, who is related through marriage to Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, was only 5 years old when he and Ockelford first met. Ockelford was giving a piano lesson to a girl at a school for the blind when Paravicini's parents were showing their son around. "Derek just shoved her out of the way and took over," Ockelford says. "He had lots of energy, so there were thousands of notes all over the place. I thought...
Before the duo came on, Harvard’s The Sinister Turns entertained the crowd. The piano driven indie-pop band preceded each song by displaying a glitter-covered banner with the song title and a poster that read “thank you” at the end. One band member’s mother snapped photos from the floor—apparently she taught her son well...