Word: violins
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...trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful - if grossly inaccurate - response...
...MUSIC Berlin didn't always anticipate the musical fashion of the time. Often he imitated it. As a glance at "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" reveals, he wrote a zillion rag tunes ("That Mysterious Rag," "Ragtime Violin!", "Ragtime Mockingbird," "Ragtime Jockey Man," "Ragtime Soldier Man," "That International Rag") before and after "Alexander." He based whole songs on other people's airs ("That Mesmerizing Mendelsohn Tune," from Mendelsohn's "Spring Song"). He'd drop a snatch of a public-domain song in one of his (the bugle call and "Swanee River" in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "There's No Place...
Moss is a mathematics concentrator from Normal, Ill. She plans to study philosophy at Oxford. Her thesis subject is topological social choice, but she has also focused on the study of Kant’s ethical theory. Moss is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, plays violin in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and has worked for Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO...
...with the fact that Harvard doesn’t offer a performance degree, Sarah augments her musicology and music history concentration with a healthy dose of on-campus performing. “I was lucky to have parents who were supportive and not wanting their daughter to be a violin superstar,” says Sarah, who has on-campus stardom without having to deal with pressure to succeed...
...day”), Sarah organized a gigantic pie eating competition among faculty and students. She obtained around 35 pies and, at 3:14 in the afternoon, the competitors ate as much pie as possible for 3 minutes and 14 seconds. Sarah also plays the violin in HRO and is involved in ECHO...