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...Paine Hall and the Calderwood Courtyard in the Fogg Art Museum.One of the largest groups in the Performance Fair is the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO), which is playing Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E minor.” MSO—which will feature soloist Sandy M. Cameron ’09, the winner of the organization’s Freshman Concerto Competition—will take the stage in Sanders Theatre at 1 p.m. At the same time, Yoko S. Wakabayashi ’07 will perform Chopin?...
...Dance Company co-director Shana J. Cloud ’06.“Performance has come very easily to me over the years,” she says. In Cloud’s first performance—at the tender age of five—she replaced a soloist sick with chickenpox on the hallowed stage of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. According to Cloud, “After having jumped across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing that can really frighten me.”The euphoria of that first...
...exception. With a fine ability to draw out tense, almost frantic chords and runs from his violin, Jackiw’s body became just as important as his arms.The more-meditative second movement gave him the opportunity to integrate more with the rest of the orchestra, smoothing out the soloist-orchestra division that had dominated the first movement. Yannatos led the orchestra through a stretched-out rhythm bordering on rubato as both foreground and background richly employed a range of colors in place of dynamics.It was in the third movement that Jackiw pulled out all the stops. Jackiw was able...
...before the “workers” ultimately collapsed onto the ground as if dead. The fallen workers were then “kicked” back to life by Annelisa H. Pedersen ’06 so that they might resume their labors by a soloist in a fuchsia bowler and iridescent business suit.Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09 and Orlosky delivered the evening’s most avant-garde performance in their self choreographed and enigmatically named duet “Untitled #3.” The duo stomped onstage in outfits seemingly assembled...
...concluded with a beautiful, classical group number, “Mendelssohn Romance.” For the most part, the group gave a very clean performance of this lovely choreography by Joffrey Ballet’s Avichai Scher which was set to a Mendelssohn piano trio. Female soloist Joanna R. Binney ’08, gave a particularly remarkable performance. “Slung Low Rising,” an upbeat, contemporary lyrical piece, provided a lively and promising beginning for the second half of the evening. Though choreography by Larissa D. Koch ’08 was often...