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...says Boch. “Started at Wigglesworth C, got kicked out, then Matthews, got kicked out, ended up in Straus. Even there we were still asked to stop playing a lot of the time, and spent a lot of time competing for the spaces instrumentalists: flute players, violin, and the like.” According to Le-Khac, “Even at normal hours, like before 9 p.m., we would get complaints from the proctors in Wigglesworth. The practice rooms are very much structured for ‘traditional’ instruments and not for rock music...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Does Harvard Have an Appetite for Rock and Roll? | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...final appearance with “Sonata No. 3,” played by Xi Li ’09, who also showcased Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella.” The charming performance of this bell-like piece, based on a theme by violin-god Niccolo Paganini, further emphasized the piano’s intonation problems. Someone needs to tune that thing before the next concert. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 sensitively balanced the voicing, emphasizing essential harmonic changes in “Feux Follets” and “Harmonie...

Author: By Madeleine J. Baverstam and Jennifer D. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Piano Society Season Opens Strongly | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

...People don’t really associate Asian Americans with contemporary music,” said AAA’s co-cultural chair, May Luo ’08. “We want to exhibit Asian Americans who aren’t stereotypical classical musicians who just play violin or piano...

Author: By Sadia Ahsanuddin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Confronts Stereotypes | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...jumped into their private cars to flee the city. In the wretched Superdome, where several people died before they could get out, a young violinist took out his instrument and played a Bach adagio. "These people have nothing," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter. "I have a violin. And I should play for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...came calling. Alsop was seen as new blood and a new direction: she's only 48, young for a conductor at this level. She's funny and approachable--she has a habit of chatting informally to audiences from the podium--and she has been known to moonlight (on the violin) with a swing band. She can handle the warhorses of the repertoire--she just recorded Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with the London Philharmonic--but she also champions living American composers like Philip Glass. She can even be heard, on occasion, to utter the phrase way cool. "There's this whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Symphony of Her Own | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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