Word: violiniste
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...major consideration is the prospect of concentrating solely on music. It is undoubtedly easier to put in three to six hours of practice per day without the additional concerns of papers to write, problem sets to complete and sections to attend. Violinist Jennifer Caine '01 notes that outside of taking classes like Music 180 at Harvard, most performing must "be done on the side, as extracurricular activities. I try to do a lot of catching up in the summer to make up for lack of practice during the school year...
...performance. "The tragedy is that while Harvard can easily become the place where you decide music is the love of your life, you may reach this epiphany at a point in your life when it really is too late for that decision," admits senior Akiko Tarumoto '98, a violinist of 16 years' experience and member of the Ehrkern String Quartet. "People who have most of their technical faculties in place, but still need some fine-tuning...should undoubtedly go to a music school where they can practice for hours and hours and become fantastic musicians. [For] the ones without super...
...that place a tradition on feigned understanding of expressive abstraction, or even if soloists who reach levels of technical sophistication matched only by the complete void of emotion don't float your boat, well, here's a good cause for you, featuring none other than yummy Joe Lin. This violinist, who is promoted prominently in windows at Claverly, will hold a charity solo concert for the HARMONY program, a community service organization that provides free music lessons to Cambridge public school children. Out of the classroom and into the practice room, goes the cry, and I will play music...
Tcherepnin's students included a number of prominent musicians, such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and violinist Lynn Chang...
...endurance--marathon and obstacle course in one. These are pieces that Rostropovich did not essay on record until he was in his 60s. Ma first recorded them when he was just 26. It is music entwined with his life: he first encountered them at four, when his father, a violinist and a pedagogue, introduced him to the cello by having him memorize passages from the suites. Thirty-two years later, he would play one for his father when the elder Ma was on his deathbed...