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...Violin is not something I have a unique talent for,” said viola whiz Sarah C. Darling, probably lying...
...song and Modigliani’s impression were both louder than all hell. When Sarah Darling stepped up to present, she started by saying, “I don’t have that much to talk about,” so she broke out her viola. The guitarist should have just packed it up and gone home as soon as she drew her bow. The group exhorted her to ask the guitarist to stop, and he wisely complied. Sarah played variations on “I’m a Little Teapot” to demonstrate the divergent musical...
...library, and when I heard the first movement, my heart kind of flipped over backwards,” Sarah explains. It took one afternoon of getting acquainted with the piece to set Sarah on a music-centered path. Soon after the heart-flip, Sarah found that the viola suited her better than the violin, enabling her to play “gorgeous music” instead of soulless “show pieces...
Today, she can be seen at a near run, cris-crossing the campus with a black viola case on her back trying to attend the myriad rehearsals for the myriad musical groups she is a part of. There’s HRO and BachSoc, Collegium, The Brattle Street Chamber Players, The Baroque Orchestra and performances for two Chamber Music classes, Music 180 and Music 93R. There are the theatrical performances (“about four or five a year”), HRCME (a group of undergraduate composers) and any number of spontaneuos groups that tend...
...while important, isn’t all consuming as some might think. “I don’t feel as though I have to do music,” she says. “If I woke up tomorrow morning and couldn’t play the viola for some reason, my life would go on.” Sarah believes that music is mostly about the communication betwwen differnt people, “ between the performers, the composer and the audience members.” Some people like to communicate through their writing and others through painting...