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Giving two different types of free performances this week, the Ying siblings (violinists Timothy and Janet Ying, violist Phillip Ying, and cellist David Ying) have without a doubt achieved their mission to bring a bit of live classical music to college students, who might otherwise just have kept on bobbing their heads to Luda, 50, or another new B.S. (read Britney Spears) song on their iPods...
...Actually, classically trained--all through high school and part of college, I was a violist. It gave me a very important appreciation for many important styles of music. I really have listened to everything; the only thing I have not really listened to is anything that is purely mainstream. I seem to like things that are more underground...
...violist playing with the Bach Society, the Harvard Early Music Society and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (where she is also orchestra manager), Aara has a very crowded musical agenda. However, she found some time between rehearsals to chat with us about the history of the bells and her recent experience as their ringer. The Lowell House bells were given to Harvard in 1930 by Richard T. Crane. They had hung in the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow, but when they were sentenced to the melting-pot, Crane purchased them from the Soviet government and shipped them to America. At that...
...people of Boston, unfortunately, did not turn out in droves to see James Galway, perhaps the most well-known classical flautist of our time, perform an all-Baroque concert on Sunday afternoon with some of his longtime collaborators: harpsichordist Phillip Moll '66, violist Sarah Cunningham, baroque violinist Monica Huggett, and flautist Jeanne Galway, James Galway's wife. There were many empty seats at Symphony Hall, and at the beginning of the concert Galway apologized to the audience for keeping it in on such a beautiful day. He and his friends then proceeded to give a concert that was as wonderful...
...come to campus intent on being active in the SAA. Nor did she plan to be a mover-and-shaker in the ethnic studies debate. Her first forays into extracurricular life were in the Mozart Society Orchestra, where she was a violist, and the ATA Taekwondo Club. Both were continuations of activities she pursued in high school...