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| Practice makes perfect: Mark O'Connor and student soloist Julgi Kang run through the first movement of his Double Violin Concerto at an open rehearsal December 10. |
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| Student Jakub Trasak warms up backstage at the Cafe 939 open rehearsal. He was only 8 years old when he first met (and impressed) O'Connor. |
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| O'Connor tells the Cafe 939 audience that his late start on the violin gave him a leg up on writing a method book: He remembers learning to play. |
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| Berklee President Roger H. Brown has encouraged the growth of roots music at the college. |
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| The Berklee Jazz/World String Orchestra performs O'Connor's Strings and Threads Suite, one of his early compositions that blends folk and classical. |
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| Student Sue Buzzard performs the second movement of the concerto. For the concert auditions, she learned all three movements. |
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| Trasak and O'Connor perform the fast third movement of the concerto. Listening to O'Connor's The New Nashville Cats album, Trasak said, set his musical path. |
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| Ivonne Hernandez, one of Berklee's contest-winning fiddlers, takes a break. |
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| Berklee provides firepower to match O'Connor's fiddle. From left: Julian Lage '08, Grammy-nominated for a jazz album; Dave Hollender, banjo faculty; John McGann, faculty, on mandola; student Noam Wiesenberg; and O'Connor. |
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| Students Courtney Hartmann, Fiona Schubeck, and Hannah Read sing in three-part harmony. |
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| The mess of musicians threatens to play all night. Judging from the excitement, some probably did. |
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Mark O'Connor's December 10 concert/hoedown was the culmination of a week of rehearsals, master classes, and class visits, involving so many people we needed a wide angle to capture everyone on stage at the end. The concert was the kick-off event for Berklee's new American Roots Music Program. Here are some photos from the scene.
