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Well, we can’t all play piano, but some of us can, and some of us play very well. The Harvard Piano 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...
...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...
Andrew D. Sternlight ’06 says meeting Garing convinced him to do the workshop...
Next year, Sternlight will work for a health care consulting firm in Cambridge, and she hopes to attend medical school a few years down the road. She eventually wants to focus on fields such as medical physiology, physical therapy and prosthetics...
...Sternlight says Harvard was invaluable in helping her pursue her passions and combine her interests. During her first year she started out as a physics major, then she also joined the classics department for a semester before finally switching to biology...