Word: violinists
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Chair of IOP Student Advisory Committee; Chair of Harvard Model Congress/Model Congress Europe; Dunster House Opera, Violinist; Harvard Kendo Club; Harvard Summer School Proctor...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closed out this year's concert season on April 30 with a performance by two of Boston's star musicians. Violinist James Buswell and pianist Max Levinson '93, whose personal interpretive styles differ enormously, offered a program of Bartok's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano...
...sound of Buswell's instrument appeared surprisingly soft in many unmuted passages, lacking the strident clarity brought to Bartok by Szigeti or Szeryng. At times, Levinson overpowered Buswell, though the violinist appeared at the edge of his instrument's capacity. But Levinson efforts were clearly earnest; his rejection of bravado perfectly suited the work...
Otto found writing ideas everywhere. His fondness for roses blossomed into a book about the joys of that flower. His love for the piano led to a biography of pianist Glenn Gould. For years, Otto and former senior editor Ruth Brine, a skilled violinist, met regularly during the lunch hour to play duets. "We had three-sonata lunches," Brine recalls. She once dreamed that the sessions had exhausted all the music in the world, but Otto reassured her that that could never be the case. For Otto Alva Friedrich, there was always another sonata to play, another rose to cultivate...
That, according to Beausoleil's Doucet, accounts for the striking vocal style that marks Cajun music: a high tenor that must strain to be heard over the roaring accordion and droning fiddles. The protean Doucet, 43, is a virtuoso violinist, accordionist and singer who gleefully punctuates the French lyrics with the traditional shouts of "Oh, ya, yaie!" He is also an accomplished composer and scholar who has tracked the Cajun style from its origins in northern France through the songs of such 20th century Cajuns as Amada Ardoin and Iry Lejune. Together with his brother David and some friends...