Word: violins
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Harcourt and his co-conspirators (Taylor R.Terry ’03 on bass, John “Jack” C. Murphy ’04 on lead guitar, Lee S. Chung ’04 on electric violin and mandolin, John S. Young ’04 on cello and Ethan B. Abraham ’04 on drums) started off the show with the sweet sounds of their “acoustic-electric-symphonic-rock experience.” They found themselves entertaining residents of Eliot House through their windows in part because four of the sophomores live...
...anniversary happens to fall during the holiday of Obon, when the souls of the dead are said to return home. Crowds of mourners scale this mountain on this day every year to remember the disaster. They all fall silent as Diana Yukawa, 15, picks up her violin. She shuts her eyes and plays a tune by the singer Kyu Sakamoto, who also died in the crash. The song topped charts around the world in 1963 (in the U.S., it was called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts...
...third goes to lawyers, it simply isn't enough for Diana and Cassie to finish their training." Cassie is in piano studies at the Royal College of Music and Diana is studying with violinist Ruggiero Ricci in Salzburg, Austria. Last year Diana had to sell her 1656 Amati violin so the family could get by. "It was either that or the house," says Diana...
...Which, in the end, is actually a good thing. As scary as it seems to conceive of admission decisions hinging on an officer's personal politics or mood, there is something comforting about the randomness of it all. It makes signing up one's third grader for violin, judo and Boy Scouts suddenly seem senseless. Or hiring a $20,000 college consultant to help package your child. Or doing anything other than relaxing and letting your child pursue what he or she actually wants to do - even if that means going off to join the circus...
...String theory certainly has the potential to do what Einstein couldn?t - happily unify the subatomic and Newtonian worlds - and he?d probably prefer it to a universe explained by quantum theory. Einstein hated the idea of God playing dice with the universe - a God that played violin would have been much more to his liking...