<p>To all the musicians out there who plan to apply to Harvard, what instrument do you guys play and what pieces are you all sending?</p>
<p>rudimentary snare drum
probably a piece called martian mambo (a crazy 11/16 beat)</p>
<p>I know its a pretty unusual instrument to focus on, but hopefully thats looked on favorably :)</p>
<p>guitar
not sure probably paganini's 5th caprice, plus some songs of my own</p>
<p>I'm assuming that's a classical guitar?</p>
<p>the paganini I'm doing it in classical, the other stuff is in electrical ( I play both types).. I might also throw in some more classical stuff, I'm gonna see if I can get a few guys in my band to help me out by playing second guitars for some mozart stuff we have prepared....gotta see how it all comes out</p>
<p>If I can get my turntables on time ( I ordered them today), assuming customs in my country don't lose them, I might be able to include some mixes I've been working on. But have not been a DJ for long, so I might not include them.</p>
<p>sounds interesting; good luck with that</p>
<p>thanks. I hope Harvard thinks the same hehehe.</p>
<p>i play the piano so i might just send harvard my CD that is required for competitions...and that has like..everything</p>
<p>debussy feux d'artifice...chopin ballade...tchaik 1...etc etc</p>
<p>Any fellow violinists/fiddlers out there?</p>
<p>i play violin...went to juilliard pre-college...am a rising junior at Harvard...and i submitted a cd with my application. it was a recording i had to do for a competition anyways, so it had a whole range of pieces: some Bach, first movt of Brahms Concerto, a modern piece, first movt of Strauss Sonata, and a Paganini Caprice.</p>
<p>you gusy are lucky that in the states, and in many other countries, you have music competitions. Over here in my country music has been foresaken, and its place, along with that of all other culturall activities, has been replaced by....soccer.</p>
<p>I play violin! I'm working on Stravinsky Violin Concerto.</p>
<p>Brahms and Stravinsky! Thats really good stuff.</p>
<p>French horn.
Mozart Horn Concerto, Strauss</p>
<p>megaman123:</p>
<p>your country.. soccer crazy huh?
u coming from Korea?? just crossed my mind </p>
<p>im submitting a Gayagum CD.. if u know what it is..</p>
<p>DreamsComeTrue: Actually I'm from Costa Rica. 100% soccer crazy, and worst of all is that our soccer sucks. Every year companies will spend millions sponsoring soccer events, but when it comes to other sports the poor atheletes can't even go to Panamerican games due to lack of funds. It sucks. There are soccer talent searches etc all the time, but I have yet to see a fully organized music contest ( I've seen about 1 or 2 in my 6-7yrs of playing guitar, and both had tons of restrictions regarding age etc). Yeah, well I hope the adcoms understand my situation and thus my lack of awards/participation in events etc</p>