Study mixed with cello
If Harvard were an Aaron Copland song, says Hansung Ryu of Seoul, it would be “Hoe-Down” — “difficult to play but very colorful and exciting.” Ryu, a summer research intern at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center and a cellist, had never encountered the famed American composer before joining the Harvard Summer School Orchestra, which played selections from Copland’s “Rodeo” during a concert Aug. 3 at Sanders Theatre. Now, Ryu said, “whenever I play Copland, it makes me feel the way I do about America.” His summer at Harvard was his first extended trip from South Korea, said the 31-year-old graduate student in Korean medicine. Ryu returned home this past week after two months as an intern in the lab of Steven Shoelson, the Helen and Morton Adler Chair in Structural Biology and associate research director at Joslin Diabetes Center, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Ryu —”Andrew” among his American friends...