Word: ravi
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...concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included establishing schools for young musicians, playing for World War II soldiers and associating with individual Germans during the war (which enraged many Jewish groups), he said, "I am convinced that music...
Following a year of applications and interviews, Supinda Bunyavanich '99, Deborah C. Yeh '99 and second year Harvard Medical School student Ravi Kamath '97 earned $20,000 plus tuition assistance from the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans...
Harvard had to fight hard to escape the first round. It was matched against Brown, a team it had seen at the Brown Invitational the previous weekend. It split the six singles matches: sophomore Sanaz Ghazal, freshman Andrea Magyera and junior Aparna Ravi won their matches, while junior Vedica Jain, freshman Fleur Broughton and junior Roxanna Curto fell to their Brown counterparts...
...second round against Yale, Harvard was down 2-4 after the singles. Magyera and Broughton each won in straight sets over Cynthia Obsitnik and Susie Hiniker. But Jain dropped a three-setter to Samer Khanlarian at number one, and Gazal, Curto and Ravi all lost in straight sets...
...chaos, Ravi reigns, Alessi at his side, delicately raging as the new giant of jazz. His father, who created avant-garde jazz, said, "The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." Ravi is continuing to give beauty to the timeless appeal of jazz. He is handling us, showing us "Moving Pictures" of his world, timing the images to the pulse of history and the song of the future. Here stands the physique of John, the dignity of Ravi...