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...most interesting four year changes I’ve ever seen,” says Kevin Leong, assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, a group Saito has been devoted to since freshman year. As a kid, Saito sang in a boys’ choir and played violin, but it was only here that he fully realized his connection to music. Standing outside Holden Chapel, what Saito calls the “spiritual center” of the Glee Club, he speaks of music in deeply passionate terms. “Music can produce transcendent and trance-like states, which...
Acting for Crowe is the synthesis of two passions: he loves performing, and he also approaches each role as a chance to design his own curriculum and make up for his lost higher education. To play Master and Commander's Jack Aubrey, he spent months learning the violin and studying the linguistic origins of his character's accent. "But the vast majority of it is reading," he says, guiding me to a sagging bookcase. "You've got Sailing for Dummies ..." He laughs, but there it is, next to several dozen more sophisticated volumes on naval history, one of which--Nelson...
...Aubrey and Maturin, a classic concord of opposed natures. Aubrey is gruff, blocky, pragmatic; Maturin is lean, reserved and cerebral, though stalwart enough to amputate limbs without the niceties of general anesthetic or clean instruments. Both men are moved by music. Maturin plays cello, while Aubrey scrapes along on violin, and their shared attempts at Locatelli or Boccherini are their ultimate expression of comradeship...
...simply because we play so little. For example, my cymbal part for Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 doesn’t even begin until a good nine minutes into the first movement. The five of us, my four first-year section mates and I, know the second violin part down pat from peering over the shoulders of the last stand of players. When you don’t play for minutes on end, it’s easy to lose your place...
Although he played both the piano and the violin while growing up, his secret musical routine was to imitate the hip-hop songs he heard on the radio, thereby familiarizing himself with the particularities of the genre...