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Plays Well with Others
When I started attending Lark summer program as a camper, at least 20 years ago, the sessions rocked along most nights until nearly dawn. In recent years, as the current crop of exceptional players step into their leadership roles and new beginners and intermediates move up the ranks, the big sessions have changed, and not for the better. The success of a large session depends more on social awareness than technical skill.
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This Week’s Gear Review
 Super-Sensitive’s hypoallergenic Clarity Spectrum rosin is now available in a variety of brilliant colors, making rosining that much more exciting.
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Yo-Yo Ma, Borromeos Pay Respect to Sen. Kennedy
 Photo credit: tedkennedy.orgCellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Borromeo String Quartet helped the nation mourn Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died of brain cancer August 25. Kennedy was 77. At a private ceremony for Kennedyís family and friends on August 28, the Borromeos performed the Haydn Sunrise Quartet, Beethovenís ìAndante, ma non troppo e molto cantabile,î from String Quartet in C#, Op. 131, and the Adagio from Charles Ivesí String Quartet, No. 1. Ma performed the Bach Cello Suite, No. 6, at the televised August 29 funeral mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, followed by a duet with tenor Pl·cido Domingo, who sang CÈsar Franckís Panis Angelicus. Kennedy, the youngest of four brothers in the influential family, was remembered for championing health care reform and other causes. He was eulogized by President Barack Obama and buried in Arlington National Cemetery. |
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Alan Gilbert Live from Lincoln Center
Alan Gilbert will begin his tenure as music director of the
New York Philharmonic on September 16 with a televised gala concert. The concert, which will be aired on PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center, features Expo, a new work by composer-in-residence Magnus Lindberg, and works by Messiaen and Berlioz. Gilbert will introduce a new artist-in-residence position, a three-week Stravinsky festival, and the new-music series Contact during his inaugural season. nyphil.org |
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Tribute to Fallen Heroes
The Philadelphia Orchestra will honor Philadelphia’s police officers who have died in the line of duty with the Fallen Heroes Tribute Concert on September 20. The program will include works by Copland, Bernstein, and Elgar. Admission will be free, but a $20 suggested donation will go to the Fraternal Order of Police Survivor’s Fund. “This is an important partnership between the City and our arts and culture institutions,” Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey says. “I am deeply thankful for their contributions.” philorch.org |
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Time for Three Album Release 
Time for Three—violinists Zachary De Pue and Nick Kendall, and bassist Ranaan Meyer—will release a third album, 3 Fervent Travelers, on E1 Music (formerly Koch Records) on October 13. It features originals as well as songs by Leonard Cohen and Charlie Rouse. tf3.com |
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Harmony for Humanity
Fiddler Jessica Emery, 16, and jazz violinist Jonathan Russell, 14, have been awarded Daniel Pearl Memorial violins by Mark O’Connor and the faculty at his fiddle camp in New York City. Violin maker Jonathan Cooper made the violins in 2003 in honor of Daniel Pearl, the journalist and violinist who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Russell and Emery will have use of the violins for one year and will dedicate concerts to the Daniel Pearl World Music Days, an international network of concerts that uses music to promote understanding and tolerance. danielpearlmusicdays.org |
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Best of the West
The Folk Alliance Region West, the western branch of Folk Alliance International, has announced the winners of the 2009 Best of the West Awards. Fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven will receive the Performer Award, Bob Stane will receive the Ambassador Award, and Faith Petric will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s FAR-West Conference in Irvine, Califronia, November 6–8. Registration is open to the public. far-west.org |
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