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...Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) gave its third performance of the season this past Saturday in Paine Hall. Under the baton of Yuga J. Cohler ’11, BachSoc presented Prokofiev, Poulenc, Mozart, and the premiere of “Nightclub Scenes,” a student piece created for the orchestra’s annual composition competition. Because of its modest size, the performance was intimate and inviting, maintaining a high standard throughout...
...daunting for even accomplished pianists, but the sisters complemented each other’s performances both in terms of technique and stylistic expression. The interplay between them was so precise that it was difficult to tell which pianist was playing which phrase, creating a truly seamless piano performance. Though Poulenc rose to fame in France as an avant-garde composer in the early 1900s, he was an artist before his time. A century later in Paine Hall, his piano concerto still sounds dashingly innovative...
...presented the highly anticipated premiere of 2009-10 Composition Competition Winner “Nightclub Scenes for Solo Piano and Orchestra,” by Zachary T. Sheets ’13. Though “Nightclub Scenes” fit nicely with the modern sound of Prokofiev and Poulenc, there was a distinctively jazzy, almost sultry feel to Sheets’s composition. Written as “a classically inspired piece with a sense of harmony rooted in jazz,” Sheets delegated the roles of the jazz band’s walking bass, tenor saxophone...
...Commons Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. Dance FestivalLowell Lecture Hall Sacred Choral MusicMemorial Church Chopin Ballade no. 4Paine Hall GlitteratiPhillips Brooks House Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Mozart Society OrchestraSanders Theatre Asian Pop MusicScience Center D1:30 PM Chamber SingersAdolphus Busch Hall Poulenc SextetFogg Art Museum Calderwood Courtyard Fun, Fearless, Female A CappellaHarvard Yard Stage Off the TopHolden Chapel Anahata: Chinese and Indian Classical Fusion Loker Commons U Choir Performs The Best-Beloved: Four Jacobean MotetsMemorial Church Bach for CelloPaine Hall MIHNUET Ultimate String EnsemblePhillips Brooks House Harvard Glee Club LiteScience Center...
...says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing to offer them." There were cracks of light in the 1990s, when researchers implicated a genetic mutation in a small subset of MND patients, and the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer launched riluzole (Rilutek), the first - and still only - drug approved for treating the disease. But no one was fooled into thinking that MND was anywhere near beaten...