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Last week, as the study break was ending, two of the guys in the next room began playing duets on the violin and cello. Within minutes, 10 or 15 people from different suites had gathered on their floor to listen to Mozart and Pachelbel. Very excited, more than one of my freshpeople said "Wow, now I know I'm at Harvard." (This really happened. I swear...
...Sasha, an immigrant boy from Ukraine who now plays "Jerusalem of Gold" on his violin to help the family put food on the table, hope is nothing more than a chance to earn a living. He does not ask for gold...
...most explicit example of his penchant for the ineffable, but the composer's acute sensitivity to the human condition is found in more intimate pieces as well. Chief among these, and his most famous work, is the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941), for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, a moving confessional made all the more poignant by its having been written in a concentration camp. Forty years later, nearing the end of his life, Messiaen completed the masterpiece toward which his entire compositional life had been aiming: the opera St. Francois d'Assise, which will be staged anew...
...about his gee-whiz illusionistic skills and how they mesmerized Americans at the dawn of the photographic age a century ago, people less drenched in images and less blase about them than we. "So real is it," wrote a Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle and the bow." To some, Harnett suggested a classical parallel. He was the American Zeuxis, the Greek painter (none of whose works survive) who was said...
Ennio Morricon's score is exotic, penetrating and mellifluous, blending the percussive sounds of the Indian drums with the classical strands of the violin and orchestra to enhance the sensuality that this movie conveys...