Word: conductor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pseudo-artsiness of the dream sequence is nothing in annoyance value compared to the performance of Michael Murphy's pit band. The musicians are seldom together, often out of tune, and usually spiritless. Conductor Murphy has little sense of tempo, and Philip Lang's nicely-orchestrated overture takes on a dirgelike quality that tends to make overture-lovers like myself cringe. (Note to Mr. Birnbaum: these people in the band are your enemies! Take a whip to them soon...
BOSTON will enjoy the gifts of three conductors of the first magnitude this year: Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abaddo, and Leon Kirchner; and Kirchner is providentially accessible to Harvard audiences as the conductor of the Boston Philharmonia. This excellent chamber orchestra serves the salutary purposes of offering varied programs, significant modern works, and vital playing, three qualities egregiously absent from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which gives every indication of expiring into another seven months of unremittingly harsh and indifferent prosecutions of emulsified, vindictively pasteurized programs gleaming with lambent somnolence. Kirchner does not specialize in conducting twentieth century music, although...
Other speakers at the gathering included Leonard Bernstein 39, former conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; R Sargent Shriver, U.S. Ambassador to France; and Morris B. Abram, president of Brandeis University...
...know Mia and Andre are going to give this baby the right kind of love and devotion. That's the whole point, isn't it?" said the prospective grandmother, Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. It had better be-because the prospective father, Composer-Conductor Andre Previn, will not even discuss the possibility of marrying Mia Farrow, who is expecting his baby in the spring. Andre, in fact, is still married to his second wife Dory. But the Previns have separated, and he has bought a little farmhouse in Surrey, England, where he and Mia hope to settle down...
...conductor began by dropping the baton. He followed that gaffe by indicating one tempo with his hands while calling for another. Still, the musicians did not seem to mind, as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra staggered through Brahms' Third Symphony. "I have never in all my years on the concert stage conducted an orchestra," Artur Rubinstein had confided to the concertmaster. "I have dreamed of it since I was a little boy. You will think me a fool, but would the orchestra permit me to conduct a rehearsal?" The orchestra was only too happy, and the great pianist...