Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People are a lot harder to scare today, cause we know that our eyes play tricks on us," one of the young boys informed me. These kids have been raised on R movies, much as I was. The Sixth Sense gave them a scare, but a guided tour around Washington Irving's estate just wasn't going...
...Christina Castelli '00 is not your typical young musician. Although she has been playing since the age of three, and is having her first commercial recording released at the age of 21, she exhibits none of the qualities usually associated with the young and the talented. Throughout the interview, she maintainws a refreshing outlook, describing her gratitude to her parents, her love for music, her hatred for competition and her desire to maintain her identity as a person outside of her musical life...
...Isaac Stern, the great violinist, has recently become an important guiding force in Castelli's life. Although he is notorious for crushing the dreams of hopeful young musicians, she says that he has been "nothing but supportive and kind" to her. "He strongly believes that I will have a solo career; he's not concerned about that. What he's concerned about is where to go from here. Once I graduate from here, what happens next...
...These attitudes are certainly at odds with the prima donna image that some people hold of young musicians, and Castelli realizes this. "I like to hope that I defy some of the negative aspects of being young and being a performer. I think trying to do a lot of different things is important in keeping perspective...
With an extremely young and inexperienced team, including five new faces, the Crimson open up the season with little prospect of moving up from the middle of the Ivy League pack. But an easy win over a cellar-dwelling Division III team should boost Harvard's confidence...