Word: violas
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...need food and drink - and their big fees the rest of the year." The music industry loves the festival because the unusual collaborations it generates often result in best-selling albums. In 2001, for instance, pianist Argerich and cellist Mischa Maisky teamed up with Kremer and Yuri Bashmet on viola for a rare Brahms quartet that led to an acclaimed CD release. This year's festival is expected to yield several intriguing collaboration albums in addition to the superorchestra. Engstroem's DG label, unsurprisingly, will produce many of them. DG has already released, to critical and commercial success, the first...
Gross, who during his undergraduate years played viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and in the pit for a few student musicals—says that he considers student activities to be as important as academic pursuits...
It’s a good thing too, since the story tells the highly improbable tale of twins Viola and Sebastian who both survive a shipwreck that lands them in mythical Illyria. Both assume, on the accounts of their rescuers, that the other has perished in the accident. Viola is introduced to the audience first and inexplicably decides to dress as a man and become the Duke’s employee...
Viola’s main task is to help the Duke woo the widow Olivia—which wouldn’t be a problem except that Viola falls in love the Duke and Olivia falls in love with Viola in her male garb. Things get all the more confusing when Sebastian, who looks just like the disguised Viola arrives on the scene...
...other performances were also strong, with Emily van Waning Galvin ’04 as Viola and Caroline T. Koo ’04 as Olivia being particularly notable. Gavin plays Viola as a young boy with a touching weepy eyed presence and Koo handles the dramatic changes in her characters disposition with great comedic flair...