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Leverett Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has maintained his musical interests from the third grade, when he first picked up the viola, to his undergraduate years at Harvard, to the present day, as a member of a quartet of mathematicians. His current repertoire includes “the classical quartet literature, up to Dvorak and Ravel.” Having played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra while studying at Harvard, Dean Gross still attends alumni sight readings. He humbly added, “They put me next to someone competent...
MUSIC | The Ying QuartetThe highly regarded Ying Quartet (Timothy and Janet Ying, violins, Phillip Ying, viola, David Ying, cello) continue their stint as Blodgett Artists in Residence. They will play five pieces on the theme of wandering: Turina’s Oracion del Torero; Villa-Lobos’ Quartet No. 6; D’Rivera’s Village Street Quartet; Ginastera’s Quartet No. 1; Piazzola’s Tango for 4. Presented by the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $20, $10 for students. 8 p.m. Harvard Epworth...
Experience soothing Brahms and Dvorak side by side with jolting Stravinsky in the Boston Chamber Music Society’s classical music mix. The show will include Brahms’ “Two Songs for Mezzo Soprano, Viola and Piano, Op. 91;” Dvorak’s “Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23;” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Non-student tickets range from $17-$46; student tickets, $8. For $5 rush tickets, arrive an hour early. 7:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...Violins, viola and cello, all with the last name of Ying, will perform Arensky’s Quartet in G Major, Op. 11; Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 5, Op. 92; and Brahms’ Sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18 among others. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. Free. 8 p.m. Paine Hall, Music Building...
...DIED. VIOLA FREY, 70, artist whose colorful, larger-than-life clay sculptures of men and women pushed the boundaries of the refined ceramic medium of the 1950s and '60s; of colon cancer; in Oakland, Calif. Her 9-ft.-high, robust, cartoonish figures--a fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and what was later known as California Funk--were comical but politically pointed: a 2002 work, Man Kicking World, shows a seated man pushing a massive globe with his foot...