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...Emily C. Zazulia ’06, a music concentrator who is planning to pursue graduate studies in music, will conduct members of the Collegium Musicum in a concert of 15th century vocal music, which the group has been preparing since February.Brendan J. Gillis ’06, a violist who has performed in Arts First every year since coming to Harvard, said that his chamber group’s performance of a late Beethoven string quartet inside the brilliant acoustics of Busch Hall during last year’s Arts First was nothing less than...
...always a happy time … and also a sad occasion.” He said that his graduating seniors are “cherished and loved” and wished them future success. The Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award was presented to co-principal violist Johann F. Cutiongco ’06 for his dedication and leadership to the orchestra.The symphony itself was perhaps the orchestra’s finest moment as a unified musical ensemble, at times wailing with ominous darkness and at others lilting on tentative happiness. A stunning staccato passage in the third movement gave...
Certainly the viola’s chances in the “battle” were not hurt by Kim Kashkashian, the world-renowned violist who took the reins for the concerto. Harbison’s concerto is one the most difficult pieces in a violist’s repertoire and Kashkashian played it brilliantly. The composition itself, however, was a bit muddled, and it seemed that only during this second event could audience members be seen suppressing yawns...
...Longbrake, “a member of his staff has expressed President Summers’ deep regrets to the leadership of HRO.” Longbrake added that a Summers staff member also worked to arrange for Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, a violist and former HRO member, to replace Summers as narrator. “My last experience with the HRO was in 1971, so I may be a bit rusty,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. But the orchestra’s business manager, violinist Alexander U. Fortes...
Nick Cords, a violist from the ensemble, says that these sessions were a highlight for him. “In just spending ten minutes on those things, it was amazing how much [the students] were able to make the piece their own,” he says. “The rhythm, for instance, is something that everyone feels in a slightly different...