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...Society is a forum for such students to get together and play. Co-President Andrew D. Sternlight ’06 notes the difficulty for maestros looking for an audience. “Beyond the handful of student concerto competitions and the annual Arts First weekend, the repertory of solo performances is unjustifiably limited, especially in contrast to the wide gamut and high frequency of orchestral and a cappella concerts on campus. With this challenge in mind, the Piano Society assumes the role of an organizing committee for student music, coordinating recitals in the upper-class houses that present musicians...
...program they have prepared for Saturday’s concert will feature a program that Sternlight describes as “very challenging solo piano works,” with Chopin’s Premiere Ballade, Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, and Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Op. 23, No. 5 in G Minor. Most of the performers, in addition to their undergraduate curriculum, study music extra-curricularly with teachers from the Longy School and New England Conservatory. Original student compositions will additionally make up some of the program, including a new piece entitled Sonatina by Derrick L. Wang...
...shaman-like. He’ll talk to the audience, take requests, curtsy cutely after each song, and generally change your life. Download “The Moon” off of The Microphones’ The Glow, Pt. 2, if you need a taste. Woelv is also a solo singer-songwriter, but she sings in French and is far, far less penetrable than Elvrum, if such a thing is possible...
...barnyard audience served as accompaniment to a solo improvising clarinetist, Matt Katcher ’05, who weaved in and out of the busy audience, and whose improvisation at times sounded remarkably like Mozart’s clarinet concerto. When Katcher stopped playing and shouted “never!” the piece had two minutes remaining...
...point the entire ensemble went silent while one of the solo trombone players screamed, then kissed his instrument. The incongruence of this act in the midst of a night of classical music tellingly revealed the peculiarity of the program...