Word: violins
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...popular bands, The Blanks, Long Le-Khac’s Harvard career has been colored by his passion for music and performance. Although he infuses the band with an element of what he terms “groove,” his love affair with music began on the violin...
...parents got me playing the violin when I was about ten. I took lessons for nine years, and although I don’t really play it much anymore it made me familiar with all the tools I would need to teach myself guitar and bass and to start writing music. The first time I remember being excited about music was in middle school. I went to a Beck concert in sixth grade. Odelay had just come out, and I really couldn’t believe what was going on: it was just a circus with DJs and disco balls...
Jackiw noted he was glad that Dr. Yannatos and the HRO agreed to perform Saint-Saëns’ “Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor” at his request. “It’s not played very often,” said Jackiw, “but it’s one of my favorite pieces...
...third and final performance of the evening, Brahms’ first symphony, was technically a success but doomed by the program to a feeling of anticlimax. After Jackiw’s rapturous violin concerto, little short of a miracle could create a worthy successor...
...just a symphonic recording—the dark, longing violin strains radiated only from mechanical arena loudspeakers—but for Reka Cserny, that was almost too much...