Word: violins
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...This Sunday, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Chamber Music Society will both perform in Sanders Theatre. Eighteen-year-old violinist Caitlin Tully will solo for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander, in an afternoon performance of Shostakovich’s “First Violin Concerto.” According to Tully’s website, Yehudi Menuhin, one of the foremost violinists of the 20th century, said of the performer at age 10 that “she plays with more integrity than any young violinist I have ever heard.” The program...
From Dallas, Texas, CHRISTINE L. BARRON ’09 lives in Thayer but will hop off to Leverett next year. She is an Astronomy and Physics concentrator and loves to play the violin for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Christine is involved in Harvard International Review, International Relations Council campus outreach and IM soccer. This past spring break, she went to China with some Harvard students, and this summer, she’ll be teaching English there with World Teach...
...Jackiw ’07 at Friday night’s Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) Pre-frosh Weekend concert. A raucous crowd refused to sit down until after Jackiw had returned to the stage three additional times after his performance of Johannes Brahms’s “Violin Concerto.”Led by HRO conductor Dr. James Yannatos, Harvard’s orchestra proved a fine match for Jackiw, executing a moving performance of the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde?...
...truly engage their roles as social outcasts. This number alone entirely compensates for the cast’s lack of energy in preceding scenes. The orchestra is the highlight of the musical, delivering the familiar tunes and essentially retaining the essence of the original show. Most notably, the violin, soprano saxophone, and percussion supported, and in some cases supplemented, the vocal talents of the cast. Working with limited space, Cabot House’s rendition was characterized by minimalism. Set designer Gene Ketelhohn brought the West Side to the small stage with a backdrop of New York City tenements...
...Roberts is a rock-star sophisticate. At home in Montreal, he often listens to classical music. (He has played violin since he was 4.) He looks good on the cover of men's magazines, even with his trademark scruffy hair and beard. And the Juno-winning singer-songwriter, whose last album, We Were Born in a Flame, went platinum in Canada, talks intelligently about his music's purpose. He tries to capture "human ideas and human failings," he says--and casually uses words like "destitute" when talking about his themes. "I love albums," he says, because he feels they represent...