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...England String Ensemble performs an impressive array of pieces. Celebrate the allure of dance, the colors of flute, harp, percussion, piano and strings and the young award-winning stars of the future on Harvard’s campus. Concerto Competition Winners for both flute and strings will perform St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29. The world Premiere of “The Creation according to Orpheus” (2002) will be performed as well as Dvorak’s Waltz Op. 54, Piazzolla’s Four for Tango, and Skalkottas’ Five Greek Dances. A behind...
...ECAC, with its conglomeration of programs—four scholarship schools, seven non-scholarship schools, and one scholarship school on the way out (Vermont)—is topsy-turvy by nature. A lot of it depends on recruiting—whether or not a school can string together two or three solid recruiting classes in a row, something that’s very difficult to do at an Ivy League school...
...fortress-like facade of Harvard’s iron gates has been cracked by the recent string of assaults around campus. Spurred by this alarming wave of attacks, Harvard has initiated a laudable campaign to bolster security. In the last few weeks, the College has extended shuttle and van operation hours, deployed more HUPD patrols, e-mailed safety alerts directly to students, launched the Harvard University Campus Escort Service Program (HUCEP) to replace the now-defunct SafetyWalk and created a centralized hotline (4-8237) to help students maneuver the new services and dispatch late-night police escorts. While Harvard?...
...Gelmetti's pet project is to create a distinctively Sydney sound. For this he'd like to add volume and depth to the strings' middle and low registers. "In orchestras around the world, we have 16 first violins and eight bass. It's a nonsense!" he proclaims. "It's absolutely unbalanced." Gelmetti's quest for a Sydney sound begins in earnest this week. For the Verdi Requiem, he's bolstered both the cello and double-bass desks, as the composer originally intended. "He's played with that a bit in Sydney and it's fabulous," reports Calnin, now with...
...points that Ogunwole and Jones earned came after a string of early losses for the Crimson...