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...more effectively than ever the theme of misfortune and desolation: Tchaikovsky’s symphony premiered nine days before his death—which may have been a suicide, though the issue is hotly contested by musicologists.Despite a few slightly messy wind entrances and a brief moment of unsynchronized violin bowing, the HRO, with its newest members performing with the orchestra for the first time, proved to be a success. Even though Friday evening called forth the over-arching themes of conflict and tragedy, the audience resoundingly rewarded the orchestra with applause and delight...
...played again Wednesday night at Club Passim in Harvard Square. The rehearsal was an informal affair. Ma and Kirby joked onstage with Dr. James Yannatos, the conductor of HRO, and conversed with both the audience and musicians. In the middle of the opening piece, Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, soloist Jonathan Gandelsman took the classic work in an entirely surprising direction. Instead of playing a traditional cadenza, Gandelsman switched to a distinctly Chinese theme. Playing over a sustained drone from the cellos and pentatonic bird-calls from the violins, his solo was a stark contrast what would...
...with his latest release, the famed composer produces a tribute to the state worthy of a native son. In what may be Adams’ best composition of the past ten years, “The Dharma at Big Sur” is a 27-minute concerto for electric violin and orchestra that makes up the first half of his new double-disc release. Adams writes of the piece: “[It] express[es] the ‘shock of recognition’” of arriving and experiencing the magnificent Pacific coastline for the first time. From...
...familiar themes of the piece on completely different instruments drew laughter from the crowd, but the performance, grounded by Bartosik on piano and Giancarlo Garcia ‘08 on clarinet, was actually quite good. The evening ended with Bernstein’s “Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano,” with Jennifer D. Chang ‘09 on violin, Mimi Yu ‘08 on cello, and Amy T. Wu ‘09 on piano. The trio played through the various and often difficult sections with poise—Yu in particular...
...papers cited by the Nobel Prize committee. Fu said Kornberg used interdisciplinary techniques involving biology, chemistry, and physics to visualize the RNA’s structure in a huge scientific effort that took eight years to complete. “[Kornberg] is the conductor, I may be playing the violin, but he understands the music, and what we should do at what time,” Fu said in an interview this weekend. “Roger Kornberg really slayed the dragon,” said Erving Professor of Chemistry Gregory Verdine. “He solved a very large...